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aproned

adj

Etymology

From apron + -ed.

  1. derived from mappa
  2. derived from napperon
  3. inherited from naperoun
  4. suffixed as aproned — “apron + ed”

Definitions

  1. Wearing an apron.

    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
    • The corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.

  2. Bearing some specific type of apron.

    • […] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.

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Derived

unaproned

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA