1A collarless sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or jumper.

1. 1.1 A woman's loose sleeveless garment, typically full length and worn over clothes to keep them clean.
   〈英〉围裙，围身布
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   • It's a horrible place that deserves to be carpet bombed for being Tory and devoid of anywhere decent to eat, we ended up having to retreat into a hotel that was so old-fashioned it still had maids that dressed in pinafores.
   • She wore the same gray dress, black tights, and white pinafore she'd worn almost everyday of her entire life.
   • The plump waitress in a plain pink pinafore and dirty apron smiled a gap-toothed grin, red curls pinned back in hair netting.
   • She gripped tightly on her pinafore, creasing it more than any lady would have approved of, and bobbed into a curtsy.
   • As Abbey put her stained pinafore in the sink, she wondered what in the world could make her older sister so sweet on Shad one moment, and then on Zongala the next.
   • As she stood up, Josie straightened her gray dress's pleated skirt and made sure her white pinafore was tied in the back; it had become custom to do so after fifteen years of scolding.
   • So after she'd removed her white pinafore and put on her black coat over the gray dress she wore, Josie put on her hat and gloves and found a basket in which to carry things in.
   • Cyzarine put her pinafore on and heard talking in the hallways.
   • St Peter's Smithills Dean pupils got into the spirit of things by dressing up in 1930s costume, including flat caps and pinafores, and re-enacted scenes from the photographs.
   • The basket was upended in her lap, and one of her bottles had not rolled but had instead emptied its contents into her pinafore, resulting in a spreading red stain and a sharp vinegary smell.
   • I ripped off the stupid bloody pinafore that they made me wear and threw it at Trevor, along with my order pad.
   • An elderly woman appeared in the doorway, wearing a faded red dress and a pinafore apron.
   • When inside the artwork she wears a careful reproduction of the clothing worn by the model, and when she returns to the real world, she is wearing the pinafore just as before.
   • She was dressed in a green pinafore, the sort nannies wore.
   • Anna Sui has picked up on the sarafan - a peasant pinafore dating from the turn of the 18th century.
   • I have to wear a uniform on school days - a burgundy blazer and grey pinafore.
   • And sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I'll braid my hair, tie on a pinafore and whip up a batch of cornpone!
   • I shall be back as soon as I have a fresh pinafore on.
   • They were dressed in traditional black and white pinafores, with perky white hats, like something from a previous age, but the cuisine was nouvelle in comparison.

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2. 1.2 A sleeveless apron-like garment worn over a young girl's dress, typically having ties or buttons at the back.
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   • Tessa was drenched completely; Clarissa exclaimed in horror at her sopping dark locks and little pinafore that was dripping on the floor.
   • And, of course, that all pregnant women must wear pinafore dresses and ankle socks, no trousers thank you - that would probably be rule number one.
   • Her red Mary-Janes were next to the sofa-bed, and her pink pinafore dress was mussed.
   • Elizabeth dresses in pinafores, bobby sox, and Keds.
   • A blur of a pinafore and ruffles met my eyes as my little sister Lotte barreled down the stairs.
   • Schoolgirls in blue pinafores and white blouses met Blair, singing songs they had learnt in English.
   • She is a saucer-eyed cutie with soft pink hair, a charming smile, and a demure pinafore dress.
   • Wait,’ called a voice from behind her when a girl wearing a white shirt and a brown pinafore with tights and runners followed her with a boy wearing a blue tee-shirt and jeans.
   • I came home to find her, one evening, dressed in her light blue pinafore dress with a white apron on, she was chopping vegetables with the set of stainless steel Global knives I'd bought her for her birthday.
   • Her body was then wrapped in bin liners, shoved into a makeshift bag stitched from Carol's pinafore dress and a rucksack.
   • What makes Sugarfoots dolls unique is their complexion - cocoa, ginger and cinnamon - and the colorful pinafores, pantaloons and overalls each handmade doll wears.
   • Why, you may wonder, has the girl in the short-sleeved yellow dress with a blue pinafore, white stockings and Mary Janes jumped so high out of the frame that you don't see her face?
   • Suddenly, I find myself holding up one of the tiny outfits with the same cooing glee as my wife had just held up the pinafores and gingham sun dresses.
   • While the new work expands upon themes of her earlier photographs, gone are the young twins in pinafores who enacted troubling excerpts from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
   • She's very realistic, she's got real hair and she's wearing a little pinafore and a jersey and so she's a very normal little girl.
   • She kept grinning, looking so cute and charming in her little pinafore dress, but every once in while she would look at me with that evil smile and my skin would crack a bit more.
   • The butler would not allow any common ragamuffin, and the girl in her fine silk pinafore was far from a ragamuffin, into her boudoir.
   • I used to wear pinafores and Shirley Temple curls and little Mary Jane shoes.
   • They were playing marbles on the blacktop, even the girls in their pretty pinafores kneeling on the dirty ground, their knees blackened and tiny little pebbles sticking to their skin.
   • If they wonder, like I do, what became of that little girl in the pinafore dress.