Meaning of skirt | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
   countable, uncountable
2. A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
   countable, uncountable
3. To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.
4. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
   countable, uncountable
5. The periphery of a city or town.Used in plural:edge, environs, fringe, outskirt (often used in plural), suburb (used in plural).
6. A petticoat.
   countable, uncountable
7. falda.
8. A woman.
   countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
9. The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.
10. Women collectively, in a sexual context.
    UK, colloquial, uncountable
11. A garment hanging from the waist and worn especially by women and girls.
12. Sexual intercourse with a woman.
    UK, colloquial, uncountable
13. A part or attachment resembling the skirt of a garment, especially:a. One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.
14. A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
    countable, uncountable
15. An outer edge; a border or margin: a base camp on the skirt of the mountain.
16. A diaphragm, or midriff.
    countable, uncountable
17. Offensive Slang A woman.
    Offensive Slang
18. To lie along or form the edge of; border: the creek that skirts our property.
19. To pass around rather than across or through: changed their course to skirt the storm.

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Examples

“"I like purple best," said Maida. "And old Schlegel has promised to make it for $8. It's going to be lovely. I'm going to have a plaited skirt and a blouse coat trimmed with a band of galloon under a white cloth collar with two rows of—"”

“The petticoats and skirts ordinarily worn are decidedly the heaviest part of the dress ; hence it is necessary that some reform should be effected in these.”

““It's all clear,” he whispered. “Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!” Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts.”

“I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."”

“A narrow lace, or a small skirt of fine 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.”

“"Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt." "What d'ya mean?" I asked, taking a pull at the bottle. "Well, 'ere's us, two red-blooded 'e-men, takin' orders from a lousy little frail, 'andin' the swag h'over to 'er, and takin' wot she warnts to 'and us, w'en we could 'ave the 'ole lot. Take this job 'ere now--"”

“But I tell ya, I can't help but like a guy who wants to rescue some skirt he fell for.”

“here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.”

“I am a shadow now, alas! alas! / Upon the skirts of human-nature dwelling / Alone: [...]”

“That each, who seems a separate whole, ⁠Should move his rounds, and fusing all ⁠The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]”

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