What is "pinafore"

Usage examples of "pinafore".

This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr.

Maellen was now a coltish eleven, all knees and elbows, protruding gawkily from her torn pinafore, her red curls tangled and half uncurled.

Platoons of chambermaids in clogs and pinafores, with mops on their shoulders and buckets for shields!

Her shell-like fingernails were tiny and pink, and she wore a frilly white pinafore over her beruffled dress.

When Astoria returned with newspapers and laid them on his desk, George looked up inquiringly to where she stood in a light green pinafore and lacy blouse, fair hair fluffed about her head.

Patty Leadbitter--a pretty harum-scarum little creature, who sang pert songs from Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, and played practical jokes upon any one who would allow her the chance--was given two blackboys, a gin to scrub, and three of her adorers, and commissioned to decorate the new kitchen and prepare the floor for dancing.

Standing before the fire that held the big black frying-pan with her bacon and fried bread sizzling in it, she put on her vest and bloomers, her one calico-topped petticoat, her flannel one, her blue woollen dress and her white, frilled pinafore.

Kelly daughter, little Bridget, tore through the gate with her pinafore half off and her bootlaces flapping.

This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.

Oh, Rodney, Rodney, come back THE FIELD CARD Annie and Rosie stood one on each side of the clothes- basket as Kate put the things in: first, the sheets and pillow cases and towels, then the tablecloths, then the shirts and pants, the petticoats and pinafores, and, lastly, three silk blouses.

Pity seized on Frances Freeland for these little derelicts, whose heads and pinafores and faces were so clean.

Neetie wore awhite-and-yellow-flowered dress that made her dark skin look evendarker, and Nina, whose hours in the sun had brought out everyfreckle on her face, wore a dress Cee Cee bought her, which was apale yellow pinafore.

Buffle's articled young gentleman, that it WAS whispered that Miss Buffle would go either into a consumption or a convent she being so very thin and off her appetite and two closeshaved gentlemen with white bands round their necks peeping round the corner whenever she went out in waistcoats resembling black pinafores.

Driftwood and small sand heaps weigh down the cotton twill of the defunct Prussian Army and the checkered, stiff-dry yield of the latest flood, inhibiting their tendency to flutter away: nightgowns, morning coats, pants without seats, kitchen rags, jerkins, shriveled dress uniforms, curtains with peepholes, camisoles, pinafores, coachmen's coats, trusses, chest bandages, chewed-up carpets, the bowels of neckties, pennants from a shooting match, and a dowry of table linen stink and attract flies.

I pointed towards an opening at the side of the big room which led past the cloakrooms and into the corridor where all the private dining rooms, including the Pinafore, were located.