English Dictionary

apron-string hold

noun

(idiomatic, obsolete, informal) An estate held by a man during his wife's life.

She still holds onto her mother's apron strings.

意味（1）

(idiomatic, obsolete, informal) An estate held by a man during his wife's life.

He resided at Staleck and the fief made was converted into an apron-string hold and hereditary fief, for the benefit of his wife and daughter; for that in opposition to the Emperor himself, he had remained firm to the Archbishop in a Diet held at Mainz.