Meaning & use
Pinner
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A woman's cap or apron with long flaps that was pinned to the bodice, worn especially in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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The portrait showed the maid in a starched pinner and long apron.
Museum curators carefully restored the lace on the antique pinner.
A note on using this word
More generally, "pinner" can also describe anyone or anything that pins, such as a precise bowler in ten-pin bowling slang.
Another way to use it
2. noun
One that pins something, or a precisely placed bowling shot that clears all the pins.
The pro was known as a real pinner, rarely leaving a single pin standing.
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