Verb (used with object) : The inner city is aproned by low-cost housing.    From Dictionary.com. 

The white-aproned fellow began blessing them with oysters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Monkey] Reference

The aproned proprietess glances up from the low wooden bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukiyo] Reference

The aproned girl said something and Ronnie appeared to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Secret Thing]

  The aproned proprietess glances up from the low wooden bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukiyo] Reference

In a minute Sam was with them, white-aproned, pencil behind ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

It was the appearance of the aproned maid that broke their unity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

When the white-aproned fellow had gone about it, Bicket said simply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Monkey] Reference

Tom looked up and saw the portly, aproned figure of Chow Winkler entering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung] Reference

One white-aproned serving girl did nothing but sweep the white stone floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

Jimmie had Wolfe aproned, and his scissors were singing above the right ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triple Jeopardy]

An aproned old Warthog Governess, pushing a pram, some Rhino security guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of a Witch]

In a back room, plump middle-aged local women cavorted like aproned elephants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]

There were armies of extras -- white-aproned youths, who did their best for us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

She rushed across the room to envelop Ferris and Avender in a white-aproned hug.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reiffeins Choice] Reference

She flung it open, almost tripping over the aproned child kneeling at the portal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

He walked on through the caseroom passing an old man, bowed, spectacled, aproned.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Holly took the griddle off the stove and put her hands akimbo on her aproned hips.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

A white-aproned man rushed out with undisguised complacency to wait on the fine equipage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

Ms. Abbott confers monumentality on her "Hot Dog Stand, 1936" and its white-aproned vendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Look at Work and Modern Mexico] Reference

Behold me, then, dear M., well turbaned and aproned, and know that this is our churning-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

A blue-aproned girl who had been packing her materials in an adjoining locker turned civilly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

He left off the brushes and turned to face me, his arms folded across his white-aproned chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ask the Cards a Question]

All it needs is an aproned cleaner going round with a hoover, and the atmosphere would be complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprise surprise...] Reference

The sight of an aproned maid coming out on the veranda and peering down the garden set her running fleetly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Chance] Reference

"First call for dinner in the dining car," drawled out the white - aproned darkey as Woody finished his story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Road] Reference

It is exactly like the other figure, with the hands over the belly, aproned and ornately tasseled on its left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference

The second shot tore through the shoulder of the other aproned man, spinning him away from Elöise and to his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]

George Fox was the first forerunner, the John Baptist, of the new time, -- leather-aproned in the British wilderness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference

Some were grumpy, some were merry, one had been caught red-handed -- or at least blue-aproned -- cooking his own dinner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Minds Her Business] Reference

The white-aproned serving maids all seemed cheerful as they scurried among the tables with trays of wine and ale and food.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

A solid ker-chunk! from the cash register and the drawer would spring against an aproned belly, a murmur and a clink of change.    From Wordnik.com.  [outfoxed Diary Entry] Reference

She feared every moment that she might meet a little wagon drawn by a sunbonneted, long-aproned woman, or a man not less picturesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

"We don't know what's going to happen," an aproned Lou Manos told me the other day in the lull between lunch and dinner at Continental.    From Wordnik.com.  [Father and son Kensington pizza joint braces for the arrival of the big burrito] Reference

An aproned man in a very old skull cap of black silk, and a shabby frock-coat like Mr. Warr's, approached Paul and announced himself as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

"In here, sir, if you please," said a white-aproned waiter, gliding forward to take Tom's leather coat and Mary's jacket of like material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters, or, Battling with Flames from the Air] Reference