napron

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A form of apron — An article of clothing worn over the front of the torso and/or legs for protection from spills; also historically worn by Freemasons and as part of women's fashion.

Scrabble 8

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nounnapron (plural naprons)

plural naprons

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of apron.

    In ſtead whereof ſhe made him to be dight In womans weedes,that is to manhood ſhame, And put before his lap a napron white, In ſtead of Curiets and baſes fit for fight.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 244

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