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Apron

noun

A garment of cloth or leather or plastic that is tied about the waist and worn to protect your clothing.

(golf) the part of the fairway leading onto the green.

The part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain). Synonyms: forestage, proscenium.

A paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used.

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"Apron" Quotes from Famous Books

... leading to another apartment at which the figure of a woman, preceded hastily by a thrown dishcloth, had just appeared. It was Mrs. McKinstry; her sleeves were rolled up over her red but still shapely arms, and as she stood there wiping them on her apron, with her elbows advanced, and her closed hands raised alternately in the air, there was an odd pugilistic suggestion in her attitude. It was not lessened on her sudden discovery of the master by her retreating backwards with her hands ...

— Cressy • Bret Harte

... tried desperately hard to be good and have the good wish, but it was difficult work. Something always went wrong; she tore her apron or read books when she ought to have been dusting, or—— Well, you or I would probably have given it up at once, and devoted ourselves to earning the bad wish. But Wiggs was a nice ...

— Once on a Time • A. A. Milne

... beds, I suppose we must lie in them," said Nora, shaking the broken pieces out of her apron into a basket ...

— The Land of Promise • D. Torbett

... observed merely: "The less you scattered the more you might have." After he had gone the woman's husband remonstrated with her, bidding her keep the coals, for the Earthman appeared in earnest with his gift. When they reached home, however, she shook out her apron on the hearth, and behold! instead of coals, glittering true gold pieces. The woman now sought eagerly enough after the coals she had thrown away, ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

... have no chance to do it again, Scotty, if you don't hurry up after the doctor," said Sary, wiping her eyes on her dirty calico apron, thereby adding an effective ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

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