Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling an apron.

Etymologies

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apron +‎ -like

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Examples

  • He wore a green towel around his neck and an apronlike cloth of woven purple thread that came to his ankles in a point.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • He wore a green towel around his neck and an apronlike cloth of woven purple thread that came to his ankles in a point.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • He wore a green towel around his neck and an apronlike cloth of woven purple thread that came to his ankles in a point.

    Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010

  • The first wound was caused by some kind of blunt object striking her omentum—the fatty, apronlike membrane that hangs from the stomach and transverse colon in the abdominal cavity.

    Without Pity Ann Rule 2003

  • The first wound was caused by some kind of blunt object striking her omentum—the fatty, apronlike membrane that hangs from the stomach and transverse colon in the abdominal cavity.

    Without Pity Ann Rule 2003

  • In their red apronlike loincloths and wide belts, gladiators came and went that morning.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • Lord Ariakan assembled his army on the Wings of Habbakuk, an apronlike stretch of flatland located just below the High Clerist's Tower.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

  • He had the appearance of a peasant: he was wearing straw sandals and loose trousers, with a big apronlike piece of cloth tucked up on one side into a cotton cummerbund, and he had a dirty white turban on his head.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • He had the appearance of a peasant: he was wearing straw sandals and loose trousers, with a big apronlike piece of cloth tucked up on one side into a cotton cummerbund, and he had a dirty white turban on his head.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • He had the appearance of a peasant: he was wearing straw sandals and loose trousers, with a big apronlike piece of cloth tucked up on one side into a cotton cummerbund, and he had a dirty white turban on his head.

    WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

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