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skirtlike

a. Resembling a skirt.

Usage examples of "skirtlike".

The Polynesians, male and female alike, tended to make comments to each other in tongues like Hawaiian to keep others from knowing what they were saying and tended to go around barefoot dressed only in colorful skirts or skirtlike garments with no tops.

Very few people knew that Ivan lounged around his farm in a skirtlike garment popular in Indonesia.

He was wearing a short, skirtlike garment, with a perfectly ordinary navel showing above it in a flat stomach.

His sarong, a skirtlike garment that men kilted up between their legs, was patterned in black and white diagonal stripes.

Her fingers clenched on the rail as she realized that she saw hundreds of copper-skinned raka, men and women alike, dressed in the traditional wrapped jacket or round-collared tunic, and the tied skirtlike wrap called a sarong.

He wore a skirtlike affair that reached nearly to the ground and he talked with the trace of a lisp.

The wrap of the african slipped down to her hips and became skirtlike, exotic, even a little sexy.

It fitted tightly to my waist, with skirtlike panels that reached nearly to my knees.

Gray-white pantaloons and the curved end of a cutlass scabbard were visible below the skirtlike hem of the overcoat.

The stem and the mouths of the landing motors were supported ten feet above the ground by that long skirtlike extension of the outer hull.

Footjoys and blue sweat socks, drawing the long tapered steel wand of his Lynx Predator driver from the bag, he feels tall again, tall the way he used to on a hardwood basketball floor when after those first minutes his growing momentum and lengthening bounds and leaps reduced the court to childlike dimensions, to the size of a tennis court and then a Ping-Pong table, his legs unthinkingly eating the distances up, back and forth, and the hoop with its dainty skirtlike net dipping down to be there on the layups.