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Pinafore is the shortest of the three and has the most obvious signature tunes.
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Knee-high boots paired with school uniform-like pinafore dresses conveyed the mood.
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My mom was always just like a little girl who never grew out of her pinafore.
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Her mother made many of her clothes, including ruffled pinafore dresses and hats to match.
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A child's garment to wear at school or for play would be a pinafore.
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Pinafore songs and images have been used extensively in advertising.
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I started to get obsessed with my upstairs outfit, the pinafore.
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Dressed in boots and a navy pinafore dress, with her blond hair scraped back, she means business.
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Also, in more formal British usage, a distinction is made between a pinafore dress and a pinafore.
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- Jumper: a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing
- A pinafore (colloquially pinny in British English) is a sleeveless garment worn as an apron.
- (pinafores) sleeveless dresses or garments worn over dresses.
- Originally used to protect dresses from dirt, it was adopted as a fashion piece and worn as a sleeveless dress or over a blouse.
- (from the operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan)
- 1 An apron, especially one with a bib, originally pinned to the front of a dress; a sleeveless wraparound garment tied at the back, worn to protect the clothes. 2 Historical A collarless sleeveless girl's garment worn over a dress and fastened at the back.
- A sleeveless garment that looks like an apron, usually worn by young girls.
- N. 1. Pinafore. 2. Jumper. This is also called a pinny.
