pinafore

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“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

On the night she died, she had dressed up in a frilly blouse and pinafore dress.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2022

Later, sequined pinafore dresses were paired with knee-high boots and tops featured long pockets hanging like scarves.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2022

The audience seems equal parts dazzled and confused by the combination of lonely desperation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer obsession she presents, in cropped hair and pinafore dress.

From The Guardian • Mar. 15, 2020

A pair of twins and another, whose mauve corduroy pinafore said Holiday! in a tilting, happy font.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy