| 词汇 | apron |
| 词根词缀 | 词源： mid-15c., faulty separation (cf. adder, umpire) of a napron (c.1300), from O.Fr. naperon, dim. of nappe "cloth," from L. mappa "napkin." Napron was still found as late as late 16c. Symbolic of "wife's business" from 1610s. Apron-string tenure was in ref. to property held in virtue of one's wife, or during her lifetime only."Even at his age, he ought not to be always tied to his mother's apron string." [Anne Brontë, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," 1848] |
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