Definition of "napron" [napron]

• An obsolete and more original form of apron. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Perhaps Mike would also propose that we rescind the great vowel shift, and that we should no longer use the words apron or adder, because they were earlier napron and nadder, and people got a bit confused about the way they related to the indefinite article -- a napron got construed as an apron, etc."
• "Another mark of refinement is the resort to the napron, corruptly apron, to protect the dress during the performance of kitchen work."
• "In contrast to supposed words that never did exist, are real words that exist through a mistake, such as apron and adder, where the n, which really belongs to the word itself, has been supposed, mistakenly, to belong to the article; thus apron should be napron (Fr. naperon), and adder should be nadder (A. - S. næddre)."