Noun: apron
| Singular | apron |
| Plural | aprons |
Sample Sentences
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She tied an apron around her waist before cooking dinner.
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The carpenter wore a leather apron full of tools.
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The plane was parked on the airport apron.
Nouns inflected like apron
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Rebracketing of napron (a napron → an apron), from Middle English naperoun, napron, apron, from Old French napperon, diminutive of nappe (“tablecloth”), from Latin mappa (“napkin”). For other similar cases of rebracketing, see adder, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, trickle, umpire. See: Middle English Nouns '
naperoun', Latin Nouns '
mappa'.
Verbs referencing "apron"
English Nouns
naked apron.