What is "aproned"

Usage examples of "aproned".

There he is, sure enough, my bold Larry, leaning against the sugarbin in his shirtsleeves watching the aproned curate swab up with mop and bucket.

The aproned innkeeper was beside them, his arms wrenching them apart--an action which Ponkert felt showed a definite lack of gratitude on the man's part.

A young aproned man with a sheathed dagger at his hip stood beside it.

Near the end of the long line of aproned men, they marched out of the walled com­pound and into open ground.

An aproned girl -- his daughter by the look of her -- set a pitcher of foamy ale in the center of the table.

An aproned assistant arrived at that point to put another of the pyramidal cages on the desk.

The aproned assistant brought him his meals at regular intervals: more frozen food from the freezer and, as time went on, unfamiliar stuff that the Cygnans evidently had learned to synthesize.

He rationed it out to himself whenever he needed a change from the synthetic mush the aproned assistant dished out to him.

Adult Cygnans, aproned like Jameson's own attendant, scurried up and down the aisle, rearranging the tiny creatures and occasionally pulling them free to tend to them.

A deaf gardener, aproned, masked with Matthew Arnold's face, pushes his mower on the sombre lawn watching narrowly the dancing motes of grasshalms.

He motioned to an aproned individual, who came to the table and assumed an attitude of servility.

At the same moment a third man, large and aproned, came out of the archway and joined him.

One of the aproned men pulled out a key and undid the lock for her hands while the other slid out the chain.

The soldiers secured her in place while the aproned men locked the chain back down.

It was nearing ten o’clock and the aproned waiters were growing irritable.