aproned
English
Etymology
Adjective
aproned (not comparable)
- Wearing an apron.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,[1]
- 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,[2]
- Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, “The Great Kitchen,”
- The corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,[1]
Translations
wearing an apron
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