Meaning of apron skirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The lower, skirt-like part of an apron of the type that covers the front of both the torso and the thighs.
2. A skirt with an apron-like panel incorporated into the front.
3. An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.
   historical
4. A long skirt with a slit up the back as far as the buttocks, designed for women to wear over their breeches while riding a horse.
   historical

Examples

“He adjusted salads with his thumb and wiped away drips of gravy with his apronskirt.”

“2002, Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Art of Distance” in Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976―2006, New York and London: Norton, 2007, p. 186, When she said grace, my grandmother said it standing, bandaging her hand in her apron skirt to lift⟳ the cast-iron skillet out of its round hole”

“1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete⟳ Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press⟳ and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,”

“The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.”

“The apron skirt is an extremely cold, comfortless garment for winter wear⟳, because it is merely a left-side covering for the limbs, while the right side being entirely unclothed, the lines and rotundity of the figure⟳ are, when the wearer rises in trotting, displayed to the wondering gaze of those who ride⟳ behind her.”

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