pinafore dress
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Her teachers instantly recognized the pinafore dress and bonnet, but her fellow students didn’t know who she was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
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
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