Aproned

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Wearing an apron. not-comparable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Bearing some specific type of apron. in-compounds, not-comparable

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

Synonyms

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Example

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"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."

Etymology

From apron + -ed.

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