blue-aproned

• “I had been warned that Cologne's blue-aproned waiters are famously rude to patrons, particularly foreigners.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Search of Kölsch in Cologne

• “A blue-aproned girl who had been packing her materials in an adjoining locker turned civilly.”

  Miss Pat at School

• “Some were grumpy, some were merry, one had been caught red-handed -- or at least blue-aproned -- cooking his own dinner.”

  Mary Minds Her Business

• “At eight a sudden banging and yelling would break out all through the basement; bells rang on all sides, blue-aproned men rushed through the passages, our service lifts came down with a simultaneous crash, and the waiters on all five floors began shouting Italian oaths down the shafts.”

  Down and Out in Paris and London

• “It was a hundred-pound block of ice, carried by a blue-aproned porter.”

  Down and Out in Paris and London

• “An amah, blue-trousered, blue-jacketed, blue-aproned, cluttered across the courtyard with two pails of steaming water.”

  The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

• “A clerk, a fat-shouldered, blue-aproned, pimple-cheeked youth, stood in the open doors of a grocery, and as he passed, stared him in the face and said "Yah!" with supreme disgust.”

  The Conquest of Canaan

• “A clerk, a fat-shouldered, blue-aproned, pimple-cheeked youth, stood in the open doors of a grocery, and as he passed, stared him in the face and said ` ` Yah! '' with supreme disgust.”

  The Conquest of Canaan

• “At open doors the British soldiers lounged at ease, and in the dim interiors behind them the forms of the women of the house, blue-aproned, moved to and fro.”

  The Rough Road

• “Luxembourg Gardens -- what time the blue-aproned Jacques was polishing their waxed floors with his legs for broom-handles -- they went into ecstasies over everything, drawing each other's attention to the sky, the trees, the water.”

  The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

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