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pinafore dress

British  

noun

  1. Often shortened to: pinafore.  US and Canadian name: jumper.  a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or sweater

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It's of a brown bear with big claws and a blonde woman in a green pinafore dress beside it.

From BBC

Describing her work on a vinyl pinafore dress worn by Lizzo, Becky said: "It took me about two hours to steam all of the layers and Lizzo had it it on for probably less than five minutes."

From BBC

On the night she died, she had dressed up in a frilly blouse and pinafore dress.

From BBC

The scene was memorable not only for the bright red of Dorothy’s shoes, but also for her striking white-and-blue gingham pinafore dress — one of several that the teenage Judy Garland wore in one of the first major movies filmed in Technicolor, in 1939.

From New York Times

The audience seems equal parts dazzled and confused by the combination of lonely desperation and Buffy the Vampire Slayer obsession she presents, in cropped hair and pinafore dress.

From The Guardian