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noun

Skirt n.

The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

A loose edging to any part of a dress. (Obs.) "A narrow lace, or a small skirt of 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."

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest."

A petticoat.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

verb

Skirt v. t. (past & past part. skirted; pres. part. skirting)

To cover with a skirt; to surround. "Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold."

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. "When sundown skirts the moor."

Skirt v. t. To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. "Savages... who skirt along our western frontiers."

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Etymology of 'Skirt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skirt" Quotes from Famous Books

... Priscilla's leg particularly; but with a slight lift of an already short skirt she surveyed her own calf curiously. She wanted to know exactly how thick Frank's ...

— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham

... front of Harding and Leslie; and as she swept around, her long dress trailing on the pavement, a careless fellow, lounging along, cigar in mouth, and eyes everywhere else than at his feet, stepped full upon her skirt, and before she could check the impetus of her sudden turn, literally tore the garment from her, the dark folds of the dress falling on the pavement and leaving the under-clothing painfully exposed. The ...

— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... Ohio. The province of Louisiana is vast, and it may be that it includes the country on either side of the Ohio. The French, our predecessors, claimed it, and now that all the colonists east of the mountains are busy fighting their king, it may be easy to take it from them, as one would snip off a skirt with a pair of scissors. That is why I and this faithful band are so far north in ...

— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler

... yards to the north would throw back all this clamor, with the added notes of slamming doors and shouted numbers and epic struggles between angry drivers and determined policemen; sometimes he would extend his smoking stroll far enough to skirt the edge of all this Babel. Then, towards midnight, long after all staid and sensible people were abed, the flood would roll back, faster yet under the quiet moon, louder yet through the frosty air. But ...

— With the Procession • Henry B. Fuller

... appearance, and more resembled a tramp than the polished official of a few moments before. It was plainly evident to me that he had made a desperate attempt to follow my instructions. One-half of the skirt of his Prince Albert coat was entirely missing; no hat, a piece torn from the seat of his pants, only half of his linen collar left to grace his neck, and a single linen cuff to decorate his two wrists; one sleeve of his coat in rags, one of his pant legs fringed ...

— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston

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