skirt
/skɚt/ noun A1- 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.
- A similar part of a dress or robe, etc., that hangs below the waist.
- A loose edging to any part of a dress.
- A petticoat.
- A woman.
- A border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything.
- A diaphragm, or midriff.
Plural skirts
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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## XV AUNTIE'S SKIRTS
Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
I’m going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs.
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