pinafore
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7.0
- noun
- /ˈpɪnəˌfɔr/
:
pichón
- We'd gone to a model farm years ago, the little girls all in pinafores and plastic sandals.
This is a cute little like, pinafore dress with pearls from Sheehan.
- This is a cute little like, pinafore dress with pearls from Sheehan.
- I got these which are like little kind of smock kind of pinafore dresses.
- You can search for certain items like pink jeans or I don't know, tweed pinafore that kind of thing.
Examples
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Cee Cee bought her a pale yellow pinafore.
Fiction book (1991) -
The children wore matching pinafores while participating in the school play.
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Students wore the same colored and numbered pinafore during both class sessions.
Academic text (2014) -
Often she wanders on the beach in her pinafore, which has turned gray.
Fiction book (1998) -
All students were identified by the pinafores they wore during class.
Academic text (2014) -
I got these which are like little kind of smock kind of pinafore dresses.
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This is a cute little like, pinafore dress with pearls from Sheehan.
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Julia was in a pinafore and sandals and held Ruggles by his remaining ear.
Fiction book (2002) -
During instruction, the students wore numbered and colored pinafores for identification purposes during the coding process.
Academic text (2014) -
There was a large group of schoolgirls in little matching maroon pinafores who came to the beach to watch, too.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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3.0
A sleeveless dress worn over a shirt, often by children
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9.1
A cloth like an apron worn over clothes to keep them clean
How Covering
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pinafore comes from two simple parts, pin and the old word afore, which means 'in front'. So a pinafore was originally a cloth 'pinned in front' of a dress to protect it, and that is why it is worn over other clothes like an apron.