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Aproned

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a·pron  (prn)
n.
1.
a. A garment, usually fastened in the back, worn over all or part of the front of the body to protect clothing.
b. Something, such as a protective shield for a machine, that resembles this garment in appearance or function.
2. The paved strip in front of and around airport hangars and terminal buildings.
3. The part of a stage in a theater extending in front of the curtain.
4. A platform, as of planking, at the entrance to a dock.
5.
a. A covering or structure along a shoreline for protection against erosion.
b. A platform serving a similar purpose below a dam or in a sluiceway.
6. A continuous conveyor belt.
7. An area covered by sand and gravel deposited at the front of a glacial moraine.
8. A border of slightly longer grass that surrounds a green on a golf course.
9. The part of a boxing ring floor that extends beyond the ropes.
tr.v. a·proned, a·pron·ing, a·prons
To cover, protect, or provide with an apron.

[Middle English, from an apron, alteration of a napron, from Old French naperon, diminutive of nape, tablecloth, from Latin mappa, napkin; see map.]


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A bowing, aproned Frenchman skipped forward and said:
Red-armed, and aproned in coarse sacking up to the arm-pits, she exhaled the anguish of the poor in a breath of soap-suds and rum, in the uproar of scrubbing, in the clatter of tin pails.
 
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