What does apron

A broadened part of an automobile driveway, as where it joins the roadway. A protective work of planking or other material along a river bank, below a dam, etc. To put an apron on or provide an apron for. An area covered by a blanketlike deposit of glacial, eolian, marine, or alluvial sediments, especially an area at the foot of a mountain or in front of a glacier.

A hard surface bordering a structure or area. The paved area of an airport , especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal. The paved area below the yellow line on a race track. The loading, parking or roadway area immediately beside a railway station. The portion of a stage extending towards the audience beyond the proscenium arch in a theatre. A garment, usually fastened in the back, worn over all or part of the front of the body to protect clothing.

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David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Frank Baum To my surprise, it was a woman who answered the summons, a large, coarse-faced, elderly woman, in an apron.

Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA The mother, out of pure indulgence, took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck, if the mother had not held her apron under me. Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift All round, in the edge of the circle of the light, stood the castle servants, the soldiers who were to form the garrison, and little knots of women, who sobbed in their aprons and called shrilly to their name-saints to watch over the Wat, or Will, or Peterkin who had turned his hand to the work of war.

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Origin of apron —; —30 for def. Words nearby apron April Fools' Day , April showers bring May flowers , a priori , apriorism , aproctia , apron , apron piece , apron stage , apron strings , A prophet is not without honor save in his own country , apropos.