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pinafore

[ pin-uh-fawr, -fohr ]

noun

  1. a child's apron, usually large enough to cover the dress and sometimes trimmed with flounces.
  2. a woman's sleeveless garment derived from it, low-necked, tying or buttoning in the back, and worn as an apron or as a dress, usually over a blouse, a sweater, or another dress.
  3. Chiefly British.
    1. a large apron worn by adults.
    2. a sleeveless smock.


pinafore

/ ˈ±èɪ²Ôəˌ´ÚÉ”Ë /

noun

  1. an apron, esp one with a bib
  2. short for pinafore dress
  3. an overdress buttoning at the back
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pinafore1

First recorded in 1775–85; pin + afore
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pinafore1

C18: from pin + afore
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Simone Collins is sitting in her 18th century cottage in Pennsylvania, dressed in a black pilgrim pinafore with a wide collar, bouncing one of her four children on her lap.

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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.

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Ella noticed how Auriga kept smoothing her small pinafore and Aries kept stealing glances at Brigit.

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She designed shift dresses and pinafores, released soft bras that she dubbed “booby traps,†and helped popularize brightly colored tights, releasing the garment in exotic yellows, blues and reds instead of just the traditional black.

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Here’s the appropriately macabre opening of Coleridge’s “The Crime of the Urchin Maryâ€: “It was an ancient crone who wrote / Silly rhymes for tots / Was stopped by a maid in a pinafore / With blood-red polkadots.â€

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