pinafore BrE
pinny BrE informal

A 1961 review of the company's Pinafore is much the same.

She goes to school wearing a pinafore, like any little French girl.

Imagine me all done up in hair ribbons and pinafore, being seen but not heard.

A girl wearing a dress that looked more like a pinafore.

But for pinafores and long hair, they would have carried easy victories.

She took off her pinafore and hung it on a hook.

A child's garment to wear at school or for play would be a pinafore.

Even before she saw the little girl in the red pinafore, there were those disconnected words.

Pinafore had great influence on the development of musical theatre.

Of the three, Pinafore is the best plant for a hanging pot.

Pinafore completed its first run of 571 performances on 20 February 1880.

"I hope you've got your bathing suit ready under that pinafore."

A white pinafore covered all that and I was ironing.

Songs from Pinafore are featured in a number of films.

The child was in a yellow pinafore, he said, "her skin like hard leather."

There was a difference of ten years between us, and I suppose he remembered me best in pinafores.

The girl in the pinafore was there, leaning away, shrinking back from the fish.

She is a good little girl, but has lost three pocket handkerchiefs and a pinafore.

The blouse and pinafore have the school monogram on them.

They went home, however, with hair lugged and pinafores torn.

Even so, I felt dowdy in my plain old pinafore dress.

But their goal seemed to be pillows, not pinafores.

"I'll tell you in two days, when we've checked the last contacts," she said, and took off her pinafore.

"Miss Jane, take off your pinafore; what are you doing there?

Pinafore songs and images have been used extensively in advertising.

Did you have to have a different pinny every day then?

An alternative to the shirts-skins system is the use of pinnies.

This type of pinny is also known as a scrimmage vest.

I suppose you even wear a pinny of some sort,' she added scathingly.

Or whether I got the pinny for nothing, I might have easy.

She wore a white pinny over a blue candy-striped uniform.

"Run along and pack and do take off that terrible pinny."

Did you see her in her pinny at the sink?"

Wiping her hands on her pinny April came over to the sink.

It's the thought that counts, she reminded herself as she took off her pinny.

I don't know I think it was just to make us look pretty with a white pinny on the top of our clothes.

Partly, the pinny shots were the product of Reece's image machine.

She moves over to the hearth, wiping her hands on her pinny.

He glanced at her wet hands and pinny.

You were dressed in a clean one, you had a clean pinny on.

One of them opened now, and a small elderly woman in a flowered pinny came to meet them.

There was a satisfied murmur from those around her, and the lady in the printed pinny looked pleased with herself.

There was nothing much more to do for Lucillia and she could put on the pinny in the bathroom.

Without funding, the team was limited to local scrimmages and practice was in pinnies.

The tea-tray came, borne by a cheerful girl in a print dress and white pinny.

When they were ready to leave, Jam called Pinny and Gig.

I was the only bloke wearing a pinny.

The door was opened by a plump-faced Latino woman in a black uniform, complete with white collar and pinny.

And what was the pinny for?

Waitresses dart about in black skirts, white pinnies and white gloves.