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
Not sure he looks great in a pinny, either.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2013
One, two, three small steps she'd taken, Blissfully came little Minnie, When, poor darling! down she tumbled, Daubed her hands and face and pinny!
From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Hannah Jane Locker-Lampson
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