blue-aproned

I had been warned that Cologne's blue-aproned waiters are famously rude to patrons, particularly foreigners.

In Search of Kölsch in Cologne 2009

At eight a sudden banging and yelling would break out all through the basement; bells rang on all sides, blue-aproned men rushed through the passages, our service lifts came down with a simultaneous crash, and the waiters on all five floors began shouting Italian oaths down the shafts.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

It was a hundred-pound block of ice, carried by a blue-aproned porter.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

A blue-aproned girl who had been packing her materials in an adjoining locker turned civilly.

Miss Pat at School Pemberton Ginther

Some were grumpy, some were merry, one had been caught red-handed -- or at least blue-aproned -- cooking his own dinner.

Mary Minds Her Business George Weston

At eight a sudden banging and yelling would break out all through the basement; bells rang on all sides, blue-aproned men rushed through the passages, our service lifts came down with a simultaneous crash, and the waiters on all five floors began shouting Italian oaths down the shafts.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

It was a hundred-pound block of ice, carried by a blue-aproned porter.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

An amah, blue-trousered, blue-jacketed, blue-aproned, cluttered across the courtyard with two pails of steaming water.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

A clerk, a fat-shouldered, blue-aproned, pimple-cheeked youth, stood in the open doors of a grocery, and as he passed, stared him in the face and said "Yah!" with supreme disgust.

The Conquest of Canaan Booth Tarkington 1907

A clerk, a fat-shouldered, blue-aproned, pimple-cheeked youth, stood in the open doors of a grocery, and as he passed, stared him in the face and said ` ` Yah! '' with supreme disgust.

The Conquest of Canaan 1905