butcher's apron
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- noun
- /ˈbʊtʃərz ˈeɪprən/
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delantal de carnicero
- Rose, looking flushed and wiping her hands on a dark green butcher's apron, greeted Mandy with a light kiss on the cheek.
- a butcher's apron
Examples
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The sleeves of the crisp white shirt she'd worn to the office were rolled up, and a white butcher's apron covered her navy skirt.
Fiction book (1998) -
A large man in a bloody butcher's apron, Frank Nixon (46), crosses.
Fiction book (1995) -
Connie wears a hard hat and blood-stained butcher's apron.
Fiction book (1999) -
A truck in front was unloading fish and block ice; a big man in a white butcher's apron argued with a scrawny fellow in a denim jacket.
Fiction book (1997) -
"Why, I can scarcely believe my own eyes," said Mrs. Larsen, wiping her hands on her big white butcher's apron and coming around in front of the counter to embrace Netta.
Fiction book (1993) -
The butcher wore a long white butcher's apron to keep his clothes clean while preparing the meat.
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She tied the strings of her bright red butcher's apron before starting her shift at the market.
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After slicing the meat, he wiped his hands on his stained butcher's apron before serving the customers.
Synonyms
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A piece of cloth tied around the waist to protect clothes
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A cloth or plastic piece worn over the chest to keep clothes clean while eating
How Protective
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Surface Forms
Morphology
butcher's + apron
The meaning 'a protective garment worn by butchers' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'butcher' (a person who prepares/sells meat) with 'apron' (a protective cloth worn over clothing). The possessive/genitive relationship ('butcher's') simply marks association/use and this compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun butcher's apron is a literal name for the heavy apron a butcher wears to catch blood and dirt while cutting meat. That's why it means 'a protective garment' today.