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Definition of Pinafored
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinafored
Literary usage of Pinafored
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Poor Relations: A Philozoic Essay by Edward Bruce Hamley (1872)
"... whose eyes are seen patiently winking between his uncomfortably outstretched
legs over the bearer's pinafored shoulder, and whose tail (from the ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"could not be rejected; so she was duly bonneted and pinafored, and then they
turned out into the evening sunshine. Not Mrs. Jerome, however; ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1870)
"... whose eyes are seen patiently winking between his uncomfortably upstretched
legs over the bearer's pinafored shoulder, and whose tail (from the equality ..."
4. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1903)
"Indeed, it was a fine sight to see this pale, handsome, elegantly dressed young
fellow lounging along between a blue-checkered pinafored girl on one side ..."
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