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What (who) is pinafore - definition

SLEEVELESS APRONLIKE GARMENTS WHICH HAVE A SKIRT AND A BODICE PORTION AND WHICH COVER THE FRONT, SIDES, AND A PORTION OF THE BACK

Pinafore apron; Girl's pinafore apron; Pinny; Pinifore; Pinafores; Pinnies; Pinnie

pinafore

¦ noun

1. (also Brit. pinafore dress) a collarless, sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or jumper.

2. Brit. a woman's loose sleeveless garment worn over clothes to keep them clean.

3. a sleeveless apron-like garment worn over a young girl's dress, fastening at the back.

Origin

C18: from pin + afore (because the term orig. denoted an apron with a bib pinned on the front of a dress).

pinafore

(pinafores)

A pinafore or a pinafore dress is a sleeveless dress. It is worn over a blouse or sweater. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use jumper
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N-COUNT: oft N n

Pinafore

·noun An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

Wikipedia

Pinafore

A pinafore (colloquially a pinny in British English) is a sleeveless garment worn as an apron.

Pinafores may be worn as a decorative garment and as a protective apron. A related term is pinafore dress (known as a jumper in American English), i.e. a sleeveless dress intended to be worn over a top or blouse. A key difference between a pinafore and a jumper dress is that the pinafore is open in the back. In informal British usage, however, a pinafore dress is sometimes referred to as simply a pinafore, which can lead to confusion. Nevertheless, this has led some authors to use the term "pinafore apron", although this is redundant as pinafore alone implies an apron.

The name reflects the pinafore having formerly pinned (pin) to the front (afore) of a dress. The pinafore had no buttons and was simply "pinned on the front".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinafore

Examples of use of pinafore

1. Sometimes we saw knee–length voile and chiffon, at Marc Jacobs we saw the return of the back–to–primary–school favourite the starched pinafore.

2. Next up in this account of Englishness is the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta HMS Pinafore, currently at Regent‘s Park Open Air Theatre.

3. "Welcome home, Master," says the maid as she bows deeply, hands clasped in front of a starched pinafore worn over a short pink dress.

4. There is one photograph of my brother and I looking particularly sweet in matching Heidi–style pinafore and shorts when I was five.

5. Hinaka at Royal Milk gets plenty of stares as she moves around in a black dirndl–inspired pinafore worn over a white shirt, which is tied at the collar with a big ribbon that matches her billowing, short pink skirt.