pinafore
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The school has decided to get rid of its branded blazer, the branded pinafore, branded shorts and PE jogging bottoms.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
On one trip, then 6-year-old Bridget won a Laura look-alike contest in a handmade pinafore and bonnet sewn by her grandmother.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
“I love the scale of the check. I thought it harked back to the original pinafore she wore in the first ‘Beetlejuice,’” says Atwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Later, sequined pinafore dresses were paired with knee-high boots and tops featured long pockets hanging like scarves.
From Reuters ● Mar. 7, 2022
When I got home, I lingered downstairs and put in some extra piano practice, after which Mother ordered me upstairs to change my pinafore.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
We met her surrounded by piles of jumpers, pinafores and donated warm coats.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2022
Gingham and prints of island life added girlish charm to the relaxed shapes, which included pieces like pinafores, low-slung shorts and men's style shirts.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2012
Manhattan was a Darwinian environment...Merrill would see schoolchildren on Park Avenue, golden-haired cherubim in pinafores and Peter Pan collars, and she would think: These are the offspring of killers.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2012
The girls wear white pinafores, allowing Sargent to show off his precocious mastery of a full range of tones created by the fabric’s folds and creases.
From Washington Post
Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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