apron skirt

== English == === Alternative forms === apronskirt === Noun === apron skirt (plural apron skirts) The lower, skirt-like part of an apron of the type that covers the front of both the torso and the thighs. 2002, Ellen Bryant Voigt, “The Art of Distance” in Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976―2006, New York and London: Norton, 2007, p. 186,[1] When she said grace, my grandmother said it standing, bandaging her hand in her apron skirt to lift the cast-iron skillet out of its round hole A skirt with an apron-like panel incorporated into the front. (historical) An item of clothing worn by women in some North American indigenous communities, consisting of an apron-like flap hanging over the front of the thighs, sometimes with an additional flap hanging in the back. 1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White, The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate 33, p. 178,[2] The woman, described […] as a chief’s wife or chief lady of Pomeiooc, wears an apron-skirt of fringed skin, edged at the top and bottom with a single row of white beads. (historical) A long skirt with a slit up the back as far as the buttocks, designed for women to wear over their breeches while riding a horse.