or pinny, subs. (old colloquial).—A pinafore.

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  1672.  WYCHERLEY, Love in a Wood, iii. 2. Pish! give her but leave to gape, rub her eyes, and put on her day PINNER.

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  [?].  The Crafty Miller [NARES].

        With a suit of good PINNERS pray let her be drest,
And when she’s in bed let all go to rest.

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  1681.  A. RADCLIFFE, Ovid Travestie, 5.

        My Hair’s about my Ears, as I’m a Sinner,
He has not left me worth a Hood or PINNER.

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  1705.  The London Ladies Dressing-Room [NARES].

        The cinder wench, and oyster drab,
With Nell the cook, and hawking Bab,
Must have their PINNERS brought from France.

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  1886.  F. LOCKER-LAMPSON, Piccadilly.

        When, poor bantling! down she tumbled,
  Daubed her hands, and face, and PINNY.

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  1901.  Referee, 14 April, 9, 2. Hundreds of tiny toddles in their white PINNIES and their little bows of pink and blue were dancing together to a piano-organ.

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