Crossword clues for skirt
skirt
- Mini or maxi
- Maxi or mini
- Maneuver around
- Kilt's cousin
- Talk around, as a sensitive issue
- Part of a Girl Scout uniform
- Pants alternative, for some
- Mini or midi
- Kilt, essentially
- Kilt, e.g
- Go around the perimeter
- Garment worn with a blouse
- Evade by circumlocution
- Duck, as an issue
- Blouse go-with
- Avoid, in a way
- Women's garment
- Take a path around
- Table-leg protector
- Slacks alternative
- Shorts alternative
- School uniform wear, maybe
- School uniform part, perhaps
- Poodle ___ (1950s wear)
- Maxi thing
- Kilt's kin
- Kilt or tutu
- It's often found under a Christmas tree
- It's lifted by a cancan dancer
- Hula dancer's wear
- Hula dancer's "grass" wear
- Hoop ___
- Frequent subject of dress code regulations
- Edge of the golf green
- Christmas tree adornment
- Cancan dancer's garment
- Bottom of a certain school uniform
- Blouse partner
- Blouse companion
- Avoid dealing with
- Avoid addressing
- Alternative to Capris
- "Mini" or "maxi" garment
- "Hula" or "hoop" follower
- Furniture trim
- Evade, as an issue
- Mini, midi or maxi
- Go around, as an issue
- Bypass closely
- Avoid, as an issue
- Blouse accompanier, often
- Sidestep
- Get around somehow, as an issue
- Mini or tutu
- Part of a girl scout's uniform
- Circumvent
- Mini, e.g.
- Informal terms for a (young) woman
- Worn mainly by girls and women
- A garment hanging from the waist
- Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
- Edge around
- Avoid an issue
- Girl's garb
- Avoid, as danger
- Dirndl, e.g.
- Maxi or midi
- Narrowly miss
- Avoid out of fear
- Pass along the edge
- Evade an issue
- Dirndl, e.g
- See 7 Down
- Go round; garment
- Go round the edge
- Go round in woman’s garment
- Go around in women's clothing
- Comedy sketch about queen’s dress
- A number to avoid
- Bypass 27
- Try to avoid (a problem)
- Border on
- Manage to avoid
- Tutu, e.g
- Woman's garment that might be a mini or a maxi
- Kilt, for one
- Dress bottom
- Mini, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skirt \Skirt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Skirting.]
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To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold.
--Milton. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. ``When sundown skirts the moor.''
--Tennyson.
Skirt \Skirt\, v. t. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers.
--S. S. Smith.
Skirt \Skirt\, n. [OE. skyrt, of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. skyrta a shirt, Sw. sk["o]rt a skirt, skjorta a shirt. See Shirt.]
The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
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A loose edging to any part of a dress. [Obs.]
A narrow lace, or a small skirt of ruffled linen, which runs along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece.
--Addison. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything ``Here in the skirts of the forest.''
--Shak.A petticoat.
The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "lower part of a woman's dress," from Old Norse skyrta "shirt, a kind of kirtle;" see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (compare Low German cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded late 15c. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1550s; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
c.1600, "to border, form the edge of," from skirt (n.). Meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1620s. Related: Skirted; skirting.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An article of clothing, usually worn by woman and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body. 2 The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist. 3 A loose edging to any part of a dress. 4 A petticoat. 5 (context pejorative slang English) A woman. 6 (context UK colloquial English) Women collectively, in a sexual context. 7 (context UK colloquial English) sexual intercourse with a woman. 8 Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything. 9 The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. vb. 1 To be on or form the border of. 2 To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
WordNet
v. avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, dodge, duck, sidestep]
pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
form the edge of
extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property" [syn: surround, border]
Wikipedia
A skirt is the lower part of a woman's dress or gown, covering the person from the waist downwards, or a separate outer garment serving this purpose.
The hemline of skirts can vary from micro to floor-length and can vary according to cultural conceptions of modesty and aesthetics as well as the wearer's personal taste, which can be influenced by such factors as fashion and social context. Most skirts are self-standing garments, but some skirt-looking panels may be part of another garment such as leggings, shorts, and swimsuits.
In the western world, skirts are more commonly worn by women; with some exceptions such as the izaar which is worn by Muslim cultures and the kilt which is a traditional men's garment in Scotland and Ireland. Some fashion designers, such as Jean Paul Gaultier, have shown men's skirts. Other cultures traditionally wear skirts.
At its simplest, a skirt can be a draped garment made out of a single piece of material (such as pareos), but most skirts are fitted to the body at the waist or hips and fuller below, with the fullness introduced by means of darts, gores, pleats, or panels. Modern skirts are usually made of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin. Skirts of thin or clingy fabrics are often worn with slips to make the material of the skirt drape better and for modesty.
"Skirt" is a song by Australian recording artist Kylie Minogue, co-written by The-Dream, Chris Elliot, Chris Lake and Minogue herself and produced by Elliot, known as Nom De Strip. It was released exclusively through Beatport as a remix EP on 24 June 2013 by Rising Music as a promotional single for Minogue's twelfth studio album, Kiss Me Once; however, it was not included on the album. "Skirt" is a dance-pop song heavily influenced by elements of dubstep, breakbeat & hip hop. It was named as one of the "Top 50 Game-Changing EDM Tracks of 2013" by American publication, Billboard, at number 36.
Usage examples of "skirt".
The small bustle at the back of her gown caused the bronze-and-red-striped skirts of the dress to sway in an elegant, enticing manner that Ambrose was certain he could have studied for hours.
Caira would have her skirt sewn to show petticoats to the middle of her thigh or higher had Mistress Anan allowed it, but the innkeeper looked after her serving women almost as closely as she did her daughters.
Feet pounded in the hallway, and Mistress Anan pushed Nerim firmly out of her way and raised her skirts to step around the corpse on the floor.
Janice, camouflaging her mood in a gay and festive ruffly-sleeved peasant blouse and evening skirt with flower applique, was in the kitchen.
She wore a sort of arty get-up of multi-coloured shirt, skirt with fringed hem and pocket, low-heeled shoes, and wooden beads.
Leave the Autostrada del Sole at Firenze Est, cross the Arno by the first possible bridge, and head north toward Fiesole, skirting the inner city.
This stairway forked at the top, a small flight leading to the door of an entrance into the cave dwelling, while two or three steps branched outward to a ledge skirting the stone balustrade of the balcony.
He gave her a moment to settle her heavy skirts, though at best they bared her legs well above her soft, knee-high boots, then heeled the dapple to a canter.
It was late afternoon of a chill October day when the barque skirted the tumbled rocks of Roscoff and, with her bulwarks and rigging studded thick with sea-weary sailors, ran close-hauled for the high-banked estuary at the end of which lies Morlaix.
In the past they used to skirt as closely as possible -- keeping in mind the practices of Soviet censorship -- the admissible limits of belletristic creativity.
Her half-turned, hand-on-hip position also showed the curve of the hip-hugging black skirt and the beruffled blouse, sheer black like the slightly laddered stocking.
She was sure the beturbaned matrons would have turned their backs on her or pulled their skirts aside if she passed their way in the park.
Not for the first time, she wished she did not have to wear the silly thingbut she was not the kind of wild and rebellious woman who would shed her skirts and corsets for a vest and bloomers, and stride off to march in a suffragette parade.
She was wearing a black PVC mini skirt, white high heels and a red blouson jacket.
On the plane to Dublin I sit next to an old woman wearing a blue bouse and a black velvet skirt.