英:[ˈpɪnəfɔ:(r)]
美:[ˈpɪnəˌfɔr, -ˌfor]
英:[ˈpɪnəfɔ:(r)]
美:[ˈpɪnəˌfɔr, -ˌfor]
pin·a·fore
pI n for
复数:pinafores
noun
a long apronlike piece of clothing designed to protect a dress.
(chiefly British) a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse or shirt; jumper.
1782年,"儿童穿的无袖围裙",最初是为了保护裙子前面,来自 pin(动词)+ afore "在前面"。因为最初是别在裙子前面,所以被称为如此。后来成为女性时尚服装(约1900年)。
pin >entry 2 + afore
The first known use of pinafore was in 1782
pinchernoun
one that pinches
plural pincer sense 1
pinchernoun
one that pinches
plural pincer sense 1
pinch1 of 2verb
to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument
to nip off (a bud) to control flowering or prune the tip of (a young shoot) to cause branching
to squeeze painfully
to cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken
a face pinched with cold
to be thrifty or stingy
to restrain or limit narrowly
steal entry 1 sense 2a
arrest entry 1 sense 2
narrow entry 3, taper
to sharply reduce the length or quantity of
pinch2 of 2noun
a critical time or point : emergency
help out in a pinch
painful pressure or stress
the pinch of hunger
an act of pinching
as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb
a pinch of salt
a small amount
theft
a police raidalso: arrest entry 2 sense 2
pinch1 of 2verb
to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument
to nip off (a bud) to control flowering or prune the tip of (a young shoot) to cause branching
to squeeze painfully
to cause to appear thin, haggard, or shrunken
a face pinched with cold
to be thrifty or stingy
to restrain or limit narrowly
steal entry 1 sense 2a
arrest entry 1 sense 2
narrow entry 3, taper
to sharply reduce the length or quantity of
pinch2 of 2noun
a critical time or point : emergency
help out in a pinch
painful pressure or stress
the pinch of hunger
an act of pinching
as much as may be taken between the finger and thumb
a pinch of salt
a small amount
theft
a police raidalso: arrest entry 2 sense 2
pincernoun
plural an instrument having two handles and two jaws that is used to grip things
a claw (as of a lobster) resembling a pair of pincers
pincernoun
plural an instrument having two handles and two jaws that is used to grip things
a claw (as of a lobster) resembling a pair of pincers
pinaforenoun
a low-necked sleeveless garment worn especially by children
1 A ruffled wrestling pinafore over a white lace tee.
2 I hauled myself out by some handy elephant ears, dried off with my pinafore, dressed as fast as I could, and ran home.
3 As we go under bridges and pull through stations the light flickers and Carmine makes a shadow game of moving his hand across my white pinafore.
4 Seen by the dim light of the dips, their number to me appeared countless, though not in reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
5 We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats.
6 I never knew at the time that while she was alone in the empty room she chewed on earth from the garden at home that she had hidden in the pocket of her pinafore.
那时候我一点都不知道,当她独自一人呆在空空的教室里时,她就嚼土吃——那是我家花园里的土,她把它们藏在围裙口袋里带去的。
7 Soon Hedda discovers a mysterious message written under the pinafore of an eyeless Raggedy Ann doll by her younger self, which leads her to the Dark Web and a game called the Glare.
8 These performers — a grab bag of age, race, gender and height — all play Keller, occasionally wearing a pinafore.
9 I ripped off my bonnet and pinafore and dress and threw myself into the water, casting terror into the hearts of the local tadpoles and turtles.
10 Among those who stuck around was Jun Nakayama, a club kid dressed like a baby doll in platinum wig and pinafore.
11 Like Catherine, Princess of Wales, Ms. DeSantis is adept at color-coordinating the couple’s young children for their public appearances, the better to present a snapshot of family unity: the two little girls wearing matching dresses and pinafores, their brother echoing their father.
12 Taking the edge of her pinafore she softly wiped away his tears.
13 The little girl occupied herself by buttoning and unbuttoning a pinafore on the doll’s plastic body.
14 All play Dorothy at one point or another, looking cheerfully ludicrous in her signature pigtails and gingham pinafore.
15 It was all over my hands and pinafore, smeared across the counter and the pump handle, and there were streaks of it stuck in my hair.
16 A pair of twins and another, whose mauve corduroy pinafore said Holiday! in a tilting, happy font.
17 In her frilly dress and pinafore, this Alice looks like an image by John Tenniel, who famously illustrated Carroll’s books.
18 It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me.
19 Though it was her subtle way with black leather — coats, pinafores, pleated skirts — and the ruffled celadon silks that lingered.
20 When I got home, I lingered downstairs and put in some extra piano practice, after which Mother ordered me upstairs to change my pinafore.