noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
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One of the cooks came in, judging by the white apron .
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The maids in their navy-blue uniforms and white ruffled aprons took twice as long to clean his room.
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A maid, her white cap and apron immaculate, opened the door and gave a little bob as Dinah passed inside.
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The bartenders' faces were as white as their aprons .
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She had been given a plain black dress with a crisp white apron and a mob-cap.
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Jean-Marie, a middle-aged charmer who prefers to work minus a white apron , could not recall a Rene in the family.
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We girls wore starched white aprons and very uncomfortable they were too.
■ NOUN
leather
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Punch was waiting, small and silent, in his leather apron .
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Here the leather aprons came into play.
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So he took up the longest and sharpest, wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited.
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Edward's doll was in Anna's apron pocket .
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Answering her own question, she began stuffing her dress and apron pockets with apples.
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Once she had left, I reached into my apron pocket for my packet of cigarettes.
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Helen LaChance slipped the envelope into her apron pocket .
■ VERB
put
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Well, put on your apron .
take
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Sarah finished the washing-up and, taking off her apron , folded it and placed it in one of the table drawers.
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Come on... take off that apron .
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She took off her apron and went upstairs from the basement to suggest the extravagance to Irena.
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She stood alongside him and took off her apron .
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You take the apron off and cover his shoulders and head with it.
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She took off the voluminous apron Cook had lent her and went in search of her charge.
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You take the apron and put it on.
tie
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Léonie tied on an apron and hoisted herself on to a kitchen chair.
wear
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Think that farmers wives still wear sackcloth aprons and wellingtons? 2.
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Never mind that none of the other patrons were wearing aprons .
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Mrs Squirrel will wear an apron , naturally.
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Mom wears an apron and a smile, looking fully ensconced in family life.
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We all wore these aprons as a uniform and to protect our own clothes while we were working.
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She wore an apron , but she wore it her way, with nothing underneath it.
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And her hair was untidy and she was wearing an apron .
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She wore a large hand-stitched apron over her skirt.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He'd had time to wash his hands and take off his rubber gloves and apron .
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It's as if somebody put June Cleaver's pearl necklace and apron on Madonna.
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One of the cooks came in, judging by the white apron .
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Our dive bombers found numerous carrier-type aircraft lined up on the apron of the field and quickly set them ablaze.
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Sarah finished the washing-up and, taking off her apron , folded it and placed it in one of the table drawers.
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She took off her apron and went upstairs from the basement to suggest the extravagance to Irena.