aproned
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2ADJ.
alive, little, mixed
APRONED + NOUN
women
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adj
Wearing an apron.
1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, 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, Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
Bearing some specific type of apron.
[…] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.
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41892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, 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
Wiktionary1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.
WiktionaryThe corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.
WiktionaryIt 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.
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