Apron

Apron is a protective or decorative garment. It is typically used by persons working in kitchens or laboratories. It is worn over the front of one's clothes and tied at the back. Aprons are also worn as part of official dress, such as by a Freemason or an Anglican bishop. In architecture, it is a small area adjacent to another large structure.

Aprons are also layers of stone, concrete or other material to protect the toe of a structure such as a seawall. In geology, it is an extensive outspread deposit of sediment, typically at the foot of a mountain or a glacier.

Some specialized aprons, such as a sheet of lead, is worn to shield the body during X-ray examination.

In medicine, it is the pendulous fold of abdominal fat obscuring the genital region.

There are also several other kinds of apron, such as a hard-surfaced area on an airfield for parking or manoeuvering, an apron state ie the projecting strip of a stage in front of the curtain, a broadened area of pavement at the end of a driveway, the strip of floor of boxing outside the ropes, or the outer edge of a golf green etc.