Get to know Pinafore better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like jumper or pinny.
Pinafore meaning
A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.
Using Pinafore
- The main meaning on this page is: A sleeveless dress, often similar to an apron, generally worn over other clothes, and most often worn by young girls as an overdress.
- Useful related words include: jumper, pinny, dress, frock.
- In the example corpus, pinafore often appears in combinations such as: of pinafore, in pinafore, pinafore and.
Context around Pinafore
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pinafore
- In this selection, "pinafore" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, grey, brown, white, continued, opened and white stand out and add context to how "pinafore" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brown pinafore dress over and a grey pinafore white shirt. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pinafore" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pinafore
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bradley (2005), Chapter 4 Another musical adaptation is Pinafore! (9 words)
A child's garment to wear at school or for play would be a pinafore. (15 words)
Ainger, p. 162 By September, Pinafore was playing to full houses at the Opera Comique. (15 words)
In the U.S., where Gilbert and Sullivan's performance copyright was never in force, "A New Approach to H.M.S. Pinafore", The Times, 9 March 1960, p. 13 Pinafore continued to be produced continuously by both professional and amateur companies. (42 words)
Weirdest production of Pinafore I ever attended had a tiny cast, so there wasn't large enough chorus for the really big musical numbers, so they had the audience sing along and projected the words onto the sail. (38 words)
According to Jones, "Pinafore launched the first media blitz in the United States" beginning in 1879, and recent ads include a television campaign for Terry's Chocolate Orange featuring a pastiche of "When I Was a Lad". (37 words)
Bradley (2005), Chapter 4 Another musical adaptation is Pinafore! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the U.S., where Gilbert and Sullivan's performance copyright was never in force, "A New Approach to H.M.S. Pinafore", The Times, 9 March 1960, p. 13 Pinafore continued to be produced continuously by both professional and amateur companies.
When Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta H.M.S. Pinafore opened in Philadelphia in 1879, bakeries produced a long loaf called the pinafore.
For girls, it was a grey pinafore, white shirt, a black tie with white stripes and a bottle-green V-neck jumper or cardigan.
Meanwhile, Angela, 78, wore a brown pinafore dress over a white shirt with puffed sleeves as she appeared to channel Julie Andrews' Maria.
M.S. Pinafore” Colclough said he has seen — he has listened to recordings and watched recordings of the opera on YouTube.
Setting off at 9am with local children, she was dressed in a blue dress, green jumper, white pinafore, and black shoes paired with green ankle socks.
Weirdest production of Pinafore I ever attended had a tiny cast, so there wasn't large enough chorus for the really big musical numbers, so they had the audience sing along and projected the words onto the sail.
For many, it will be a rosy-cheeked 17-year-old in a blue-and-white gingham pinafore en route to the Emerald City.
M.S. Pinafore” presented on a stage erected in front of the docked U.S.S. Constitution.
We have produced other Gilbert and Sullivan shows, including ‘Mikado’ and ‘HMS Pinafore’ but it was ‘Pirates of Penzance’ we’ve done the most because it aptly suits The Hypocrites make-up.
According to Jones, "Pinafore launched the first media blitz in the United States" beginning in 1879, and recent ads include a television campaign for Terry's Chocolate Orange featuring a pastiche of "When I Was a Lad".
A child's garment to wear at school or for play would be a pinafore.
After a reasonably strong first week, audiences quickly fell off, since most New Yorkers had already seen local productions of Pinafore.
Ainger, p. 162 By September, Pinafore was playing to full houses at the Opera Comique.
Ainger, pp. 182–83 Alfred Cellier came to assist Sullivan, while his brother François remained in London to conduct Pinafore there.
Allen, Introduction to chapter on H.M.S. Pinafore This criticism would follow Sullivan throughout his career.
Analysis Theatre historian John Bush Jones wrote that Pinafore has "everything a musical theatregoer could ask for.
An early Yiddish adaptation of Pinafore, called Der Shirtz (Yiddish for "apron") was written by Miriam Walowit in 1952 for a Brooklyn, New York Hadassah group, and they recorded 12 of the songs.
Baily, p. 344 The opera enjoyed a run longer than any of their other joint works except for H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience and The Mikado.
Bradley (2005), Chapter 4 Another musical adaptation is Pinafore!
Common combinations with pinafore
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of pinafore 14×
- in pinafore 7×
- pinafore and 6×
- the pinafore 4×
- pinafore in 4×
- pinafore continued 3×
- pinafore dress 3×
- pinafore was 3×
- to pinafore 2×
- pinafore the 2×