<span class="searchmatch">apron</span>-<span class="searchmatch">string</span> <span class="searchmatch">hold</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">apron</span>-<span class="searchmatch">string</span> <span class="searchmatch">holds</span>) (idiomatic, obsolete, informal) An estate held by a man during his wife's life. 1872, W. O. von Horn, The...
also: <span class="searchmatch">apron</span>-<span class="searchmatch">string</span> <span class="searchmatch">apron</span>-<span class="searchmatch">string</span> <span class="searchmatch">apron</span> <span class="searchmatch">string</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">apron</span> strings) One of the pair of strings or narrow sewn clothstrips used to fasten an <span class="searchmatch">apron</span> around...
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Goose Lane Editions, →ISBN, page 20: My soldier has pulled the maid’s <span class="searchmatch">apron</span> from the mannequin in the larder, and sausaged his hairy thighs inside splitting...