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  • noun Plural form of apron.

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Examples

  • I m currently in love with the house dresses and wrap around dress/aprons from the 1930's (picture Olivia Walton).

    Sewing Simple Clothing 2009

  • They wait at windows in aprons and house dresses, cross-your-hearts, buckled and pointed.

    karla huston | 3 poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • After twice getting elbowed out of the way by a gang of street-fighters dressed as four-foot high Zapotec women in aprons, we threw in the towel and went in search of a bus back to Oaxaca.

    Sauce for the goose 2000

  • [Page 170] plush seats, white marble tables, waiters in aprons, Miss Moss walked through them all.

    Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

  • I shall wear gold dresses and silver dresses every day, and diamond rings, and have white satin aprons to tie on when I'm dusting, or doing anything dirty.

    What Katy Did: A Story 1887

  • I don’t really think older Italian men in aprons, at least of the kind who might appear in manga for grown-ups, need any help looking sexy, but that might just be me.

    Meanwhile, up at Javits 2009

  • I don’t really think older Italian men in aprons, at least of the kind who might appear in manga for grown-ups, need any help looking sexy, but that might just be me.

    September « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

  • I don’t really think older Italian men in aprons, at least of the kind who might appear in manga for grown-ups, need any help looking sexy, but that might just be me.

    30 « September « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

  • Their aprons were the same and said (red letters on a black apron): "I've got more time for luvin 'since I got my microwave oven".

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2004

  • "I like the idea of aprons or cotton workmen's uniforms and using classic construction fabrics for womenswear," he explains.

    The Guardian World News Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy 2011

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