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aproned

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From apron +‎ -ed.

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aproned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing an apron.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,[1]
      It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle,[2]
      Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
    • 1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Great Kitchen”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
      The corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.
    • 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Disgrace[3], New York: Viking, page 14:
      Together they contemplate the picture: the young wife with the daring clothes and gaudy jewellery striding through the front door, impatiently sniffing the air; the husband, colourless Mr Right, apronned, stirring a pot in the steaming kitchen.
  2. (in combination) Bearing some specific type of apron.
    • 2006 April 23, John Freeman Gill, The New York Times[4], archived from the original on 2024-04-15:
      [] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.

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