skirted
English
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editskirted (not comparable)
- Wearing a skirt.
- Synonym: beskirted
- 2007, Naomi Guttman, Wet Apples, White Blood, page 68:
- […] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
- Having a skirt.
- 1979, Qurratulain Hyder, A Woman’s Life, Chetana Publications:
- Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
- 2012, Jeanette S. Martin, Lillian H. Chaney, Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs, 2nd edition, Praeger, →ISBN, page 87:
- Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
- 2017, Lynn Dumenil, The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 216:
- The women whose new jobs required pants, overalls, or skirted uniforms broke dramatically with convention.
- Bordered.
- Passed around; evaded.
- a skirted topic of conversation
- Narrowly missed.
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editskirted
- simple past and past participle of skirt