apron skirt

短语

词形变化

apron skirts 复数 apron skirts

别名

apronskirt

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The lower, skirt-like part of an apron of the type that covers the front of both the torso and the thighs.

    2002, Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Art of Distance” in Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976―2006, New York and London: Norton, 2007, p. 186, When she said grace, my grandmother said it standing, bandaging her hand in her apron skirt to lift the cast-iron skillet out of its round hole

  2. 2.

    A skirt with an apron-like panel incorporated into the front.

  3. 3.

    An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back.

    历史

    1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,

    The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads.

  4. 4.

    A long skirt with a slit up the back as far as the buttocks, designed for women to wear over their breeches while riding a horse.

    历史