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pinbefore

pinbefore is the obsolete form of pinafore.

Meaning of pinafore

Noun

pinafore (plural pinafores)

  1. A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.
    • “He looks just like an angel,” said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks, and their clean white pinafores.1888, Oscar Wilde, “The Happy Prince”, in The Happy Prince and Other Tales

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Forms of pinbefore

pluralpinbefores

Questions about pinbefore

What is pinbefore the obsolete form of?
Pinbefore is the obsolete form of pinafore.

Words near pinbefore in the dictionary

  1. pinballed
  2. pinballer
  3. pinballers
  4. pinballing
  5. pinballs
  6. pinbefore
  7. pinbefores
  8. Pinbeyan
  9. pinblock
  10. pinboard
  11. pinboarded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinbefore (page history and authors); pinafore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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