Definition of "aproned"

It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors.

1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box

Holmes pushed open the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord.

1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

The corridor was alive. Clusters of aproned figures mixed and disengaged.

1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Great Kitchen”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode

Together they contemplate the picture: the young wife with the daring clothes and gaudy jewellery striding through the front door, impatiently sniffing the air; the husband, colourless Mr Right, apronned, stirring a pot in the steaming kitchen.

1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Disgrace‎, New York: Viking, page 14

[…] said Douglas Mancini, a red-aproned bartender at Keens Steakhouse on West 36th Street off Avenue of the Americas.

2006 April 23, John Freeman Gill, The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 2024-04-15