A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing.
1 I would thrive in some kindly Shaker community, in a bonnet and a long pinny .
2 THEN she took something else off a clothes-horse-"Thatisn't my pinny ? "
3 Har-yes ,Mr.Harry-( a woman 's pinny hand,-the man's wife, I'll wager)-Aye-Mr.
4 Mrs. Ellis played with the edge of her pinny , twisting the fabric nervously in her fingers.
5 You'd look very fetching in your pinny .
6 Bar this money I've hardly a pinny .
7 Three handkins and a pinny !
8 And he did too, every pinny of it, and the horse was beat on the post by a short head.
9 Then, he'd hardly have got to 10 Downing Street thrice if he'd been focused on the pinny and the duster.
10 Meantime, Ahab holding the letter, muttered, Mr. Har-yes, Mr. Harry-( a woman 's pinny hand,-the man's wife, I'll wager)-Aye-Mr.
11 Presently, from his discreet distance, he saw the mother-child going down the road toward Tod's, in her blue ' pinny ' and corn-colored hair.
12 Boy, with his " pinny " on, ran off in glee to make himself promiscuously useful, and I sat down to plan an attack.
13 To her left were soccer nets, field hockey pinnies , and extra lacrosse sticks.
14 Prince, or Pinny , as we call him, plays some funny tricks.
15 Adding to the overall schoolyard ambiance, the candidates wear pinnies .
16 Pinny is more artful about it than the rest.
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