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Synonyms for skirt

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : skurt
Phonetic Transcription : skÉœrt

Top 10 synonyms for skirt
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Définition of skirt

Origin :
  • 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 (cf. 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.
  • noun border, edge
  • noun ladies' garment that hangs from waist
  • verb border; be on the edge
  • verb avoid; get around
Example sentences :
  • The dress was of silky changeable tricolette, the skirt plain.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Some roses grew behind the hollyhocks, and her skirt was caught.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • The skirt was long enough to tuck around her baby's feet when she carried it.
  • Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • "Yes," said Lucindy, smiling, and plaiting her skirt between her nervous fingers.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • She was paying minute attention to the lace insertion of her skirt.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Mrs. Blair staggered to her feet, entangled by her skirt, and pitching like a ship at sea.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • She had no gloves, and a bit of the velvet binding of her skirt was loose.
  • Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
  • Let us skirt it and push on for Bruton, where we may spare time for bite and sup.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Jane was ushered into the closet, and soon scented out the skirt.
  • Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow
  • It was one of her red garters which had slipped down from beneath her skirt.
  • Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

Antonyms for skirt

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