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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 231 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APRON (a corruption arising from a wrong See also:division of " a napron " into " an apron," from the Fr. naperon, napperon, a diminutive of nappe, See also:Lat. mappa, a napkin)  , an See also:article of See also:costume used to protect the front of the clothes . It forms See also:part of the ceremonial See also:dress of Freemasons . The " See also:apron " worn by See also:church dignitaries is a shortened See also:cassock (q.v.) . The word has many technical uses, as for the protecting slope in front of the See also:sill of See also:dock-See also:gates, or at the See also:foot of weirs .

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