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De - Pt| English Dictionary: apron strings | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Apron string \A"pron string`\ The string of an apron. {To be tied to a} {wife's [or] mother's} {apron strings}, to be unduly controlled by a wife or mother. He was so made that he could not submit to be tied to the apron strings even of the best of wives. --Macaulay. | |
