Definitions
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- adjective Wearing an apron.
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- adjective Wearing an
apron .
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Examples
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We should not take a particular version of the family institution, such as the 1950s model of the suit-wearing, bread-winning dad and aproned, homemaking mother, and try to preserve it in aspic.
Nick Clegg mocks Conservatives over '1950s view' of British family 2011
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The diner is a diner, no more and no less, retro-50s tube with aproned waitresses and meat loaf and pie and Val, leaning forward by the register, staring at the door.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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Nick Clegg will open a new front in his criticism of David Cameron on Monday by mocking his "1950s view" of the traditional British family, in which the "suit-wearing dad" is the breadwinner and the "aproned" mother the homemaker.
Nick Clegg mocks Conservatives over '1950s view' of British family 2011
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On her dairy trip she brought a three-liter aluminum cistern to be filled with milk by an aproned woman behind the counter, and out of the three kinds of cheese, with the geopolitical names of Russian, Soviet, and Swiss, she would buy a kilo of Russian, the least expensive but the tastiest.
A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010
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A second later it opens to reveal Helen, aproned and furious.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Ms. Abbott confers monumentality on her "Hot Dog Stand, 1936" and its white-aproned vendor.
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O garbage men, the New Year greets you like the Old; after this first run you too may rest in beds like great warm aproned laps and know that people everywhere have faith: putting from them all things of this world, they confidently bide your second coming.
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A second later it opens to reveal Helen, aproned and furious.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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Through the dark windows lay the towns where all the men seated around him would soon carry their briefcases down silent streets, wipe the bottoms of their polished shoes on a WELCOME mat, greet their aproned wives, kiss their children, and have a conversation about the weather, the grocery bill, new kitchen cabinets.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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A second later it opens to reveal Helen, aproned and furious.
The Redleys Matt Haig 2010
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