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Pinafore

An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Frock 76% connected

A loose outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse shirtlike garment worn by…

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Jumper 92% connected

One who, or that which, jumps.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

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Antero- unknown · 78% connection

A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

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Array noun · 78% connection

To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

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Band verb · 78% connection

Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.

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Bank noun · 78% connection

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

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Basque noun · 78% connection

A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Ba…

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Before adverb · 78% connection

On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear.

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Bellycheat noun · 78% connection

An apron or covering for the front of the person.

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Boot noun · 78% connection

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

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Bosom noun · 78% connection

The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom…

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Child noun · 78% connection

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

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Cocoon noun · 78% connection

silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

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Codpiece noun · 78% connection

A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.

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Corvette noun · 78% connection

A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of w…

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Countermarch noun · 78% connection

An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner…

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