apron

英 ['e?pr(?)n] 美['epr?n]

CET6+TEM4GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?aprons;

Apron：阿婆用。阿婆給我們做飯的時候用的----圍裙。
（記）a+pron（諧音：仆人）聯想：一個仆人經常穿的東西

apron 圍裙

來自短語a napron 錯分為an apron. 古英語napron, 布，同map, mop.

apron: apron: [14] As in the case of adder, umpire, and many others, apron arose from a mistaken analysis of the combination ‘indefinite article + noun’. The original Middle English word was napron, but as early as the 15th century a napron had turned into an apron. Napron itself had been borrowed from Old French naperon, a derivative of nape ‘cloth’ (source of English napery and napkin); and nape came from Latin mappa ‘napkin, towel’ (source of English map).
=> map, mat, napkin
apron (n.): mid-15c., faulty separation (as also in adder, umpire) of a napron (c. 1300), from Old French naperon "small table-cloth," diminutive of nappe "cloth," from Latin mappa "napkin." Napron was still in use as recently as late 16c. The shift of Latin -m- to -n- was a tendency in Old French (conter from computare, printemps from primum, natte "mat, matting," from matta). Symbolic of "wife's business" from 1610s. Apron-string tenure was in reference to property held in virtue of one's wife, or during her lifetime only.
Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string. [Anne Bront?, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848]

1. He was wearing, astonishingly, a frilly pink apron over shirt and trousers.: 他穿得很奇怪，襯衫和褲子外面套著件鑲褶邊的粉紅圍裙。

4. We were waited on by a pretty girl in a pink apron.: 招待我們的是一位穿粉紅色圍裙的漂亮姑娘.

5. She accidentally splashed oil over her apron while cooking lunch.: 做午飯時,她不小心把圍裙濺上了油.