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pinafore

[pin-uh-fawr, -fohr] / ˈpɪn əˌfɔr, -ˌfoʊr /
NOUN
apron
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG




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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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2022

It looked like old lady clothes, but also the pinafore type of things.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2022

Isannah was almost jumping out of her pinafore in glee.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

It is seeking donations of good-quality, unbranded uniform items, including polo shirts, pinafores and PE shorts.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

In photos I saw when she was a kid and I was a kid, she looked like one of us, in pinafores and high pigtails, or Benetton sweaters and frizzy hair.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

The cool girls are wearing patched jeans and feathered bangs, but her mother dresses her in Dust Bowl-style pinafores and sensible shoes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020

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

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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