apron skirt

Noun

 * 1) The lower, skirt-like part of an apron of the type that covers the front of both the torso and the thighs.
 * 2) * 2002,, “The Art of Distance” in Messenger: New and Selected Poems, 1976―2006, New York and London: Norton, 2007, p.186,
 * 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
 * 1) A skirt with an apron-like panel incorporated into the front.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) * 1984, Paul Hulton, America 1585: The Complete Drawings of , The University of North Carolina Press and British Museum Publications, description of Plate33, p.178,
 * 4) * 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.
 * 5)  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.
 * 1)  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.