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  • adjective Without an apron.

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  • adjective Without an apron.

Etymologies

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apron +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The door opened and the baker, now apronless, stood there in the last minutes of daylight, staring out at my father on his stoop.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • The door opened and the baker, now apronless, stood there in the last minutes of daylight, staring out at my father on his stoop.

    The Beautiful Miscellaneous Dominic Smith 2007

  • However efficient at home, when a-visiting, it can sit on the barnyard bars in its best store suit and without an emotion of conscience watch its host milk twenty cows, or within doors it can fold its housewifely hands upon its waistline, regard without compunction a lap for once apronless, and rock and chatter hour after hour while its hostess pants and perspires to feed it.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • Priscilla came down, apronless and smudgeless, Stella reduced her corner to decency, and Phil saved the situation by a stream of ready small talk.

    Anne of the Island 1908

  • However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs. Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful "For what we are about to receive --" with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

  • However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband's cheerful 'For what we are about to receive --' with a sepulchral Amen, calculated to cast a damp upon the stoutest appetite.

    Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

  • However, she persisted in dishing the dinner as well as cooking it, and then sat down, bibless and apronless, to partake of it as an illustrious guest: Mrs Wilfer first responding to her husband’s cheerful

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

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