apron
apron Lexical Profile
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• noun
A protective or sometimes decorative garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back, typically used while cooking, cleaning, or working.
"She tied her apron securely before starting to bake the messy chocolate cake."
A hard-surfaced area at an airport where aircraft are parked, boarded, unloaded, or refueled.
"The ground crew directed the commercial airliner to its designated parking spot on the apron."
The part of a theater stage that extends in front of the proscenium arch and toward the audience.
"The actor stepped downstage onto the apron to deliver an intimate soliloquy directly to the crowd."
• Rhymes for apron
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'napron', borrowed from Old French 'naperon' (a small tablecloth). The initial 'n' was lost in the 16th century through a linguistic process called rebracketing or false splitting, where 'a napron' was misheard and subsequently adopted as 'an apron'.
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