pinafore dress

British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: pinafore.  US and Canadian name: jumper.  a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater

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Example Sentences

It's of a brown bear with big claws and a blonde woman in a green pinafore dress beside it.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

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

From BBC • Dec. 17, 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

In 1963, a “Snob” pinafore dress cost six guineas – the equivalent of just over £100.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019

It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett