pinny
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The shop at the Bauhaus is a joy – a place where it’s easy to blow €100 on cups, posh pencils and an arty pinny.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2019
What do you think he’s hiding under his grandma’s pinny?
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2015
In Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray dressed James Dean's dad in a pinny and explored the devastation wrought on the adolescent psyche by the absent and inadequate father.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2014
The seven images I've seen include one blonde Sindy with a food mixer and pinny, one in full princess party mode and another with a T-shirt that hopes to ram the message home: "100% fresh".
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2012
"Oh, Joan, you darling— but what about your clean pinny that I had put on on purpose to make you look nice when your new big sister saw you for the first time?"
From Anxious Audrey by Quiller-Couch, Mabel
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