apron Definition

apron
noun

1a. A piece of cloth, plastic, etc tied around the waist and worn over the front of clothes to protect them;
1b. Any similar cloth worn as part of the distinctive or ceremonial dress of certain groups, eg by members of the clergy, Freemasons, etc.
2. A hard-surface area at an airport where aircraft are loaded.
3. theat.
The part of the stage that can still be seen when the curtain is closed, which in Elizabethan times jutted right out into the audience.
4. golf.
The area of fairway around the green.
5. A skirt (sense 4).

Idiom: tied to someone's apron strings

Usually said of a boy or man: completely dominated by and dependent on them, especially a mother or wife.

Etymology: 15c: from 14c napron, from French naperon, a diminutive of nappe a tablecloth.