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   apron

   /ˈeɪpr(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. a protective garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back: "a striped butcher's apron"
   • ▪ a garment similar to an apron that is worn as part of official dress, as by a bishop or Freemason.
   • ▪ a sheet of lead worn to shield the body during an X-ray examination.
   • 2. a small area adjacent to another larger area or structure: "a tiny apron of garden"
   • ▪ a hard-surfaced area on an airfield used for manoeuvring or parking aircraft: "the pilot was instructed to park on the main apron"
   • ▪ a projecting strip of stage for playing scenes in front of the curtain.
   • ▪ an area of asphalt where the drive of a house meets the road. US
   • ▪ the narrow strip of a boxing ring lying outside the ropes.
   • ▪ an extensive outspread deposit of sediment, typically at the foot of a glacier or mountain.
   • 3. an endless conveyor made of overlapping plates: "apron feeders bring coarse ore to a grinding mill"

   Word Origin Middle Englishnaperon, from Old French, diminutive of nape, nappe ‘tablecloth’, from Latin mappa ‘napkin’. The n was lost by wrong division of a napron; compare with adder1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. apronful noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

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