aproned

English

Alternative forms

• apronned

Etymology

From apron +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• unaproned

 

Translations

wearing an apron

• Portuguese: aventalado

Anagrams

• operand, padrone, pandore