apron
noun
[ ˈeɪpr(ə)n ]
• a protective garment worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back.
• "a striped butcher's apron"
• a small area adjacent to another larger area or structure.
• "a tiny apron of garden"
• an endless conveyor made of overlapping plates.
• "apron feeders bring coarse ore to a grinding mill"
Origin:
Middle English naperon, from Old French, diminutive of nape, nappe ‘tablecloth’, from Latin mappa ‘napkin’. The n was lost by wrong division of a napron ; compare with adder1.
