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Skirt   /skərt/   Listen
Skirt

noun
1.
Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist.
2.
A garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women.
3.
(Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar.  Synonym: annulus.
4.
Informal terms for a (young) woman.  Synonyms: bird, chick, dame, doll, wench.
verb
(past & past part. skirted; pres. part. skirting)
1.
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues).  Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep.  "She skirted the problem" , "They tend to evade their responsibilities" , "He evaded the questions skillfully"
2.
Pass around or about; move along the border.
3.
Form the edge of.
4.
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.  Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround.



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"Skirt" Quotes from Famous Books



... all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago— How she held her pretty head, How her dainty skirt she spread, How she slowly leaned and ...
— Graded Memory Selections • Various
... feared this meeting, had prepared herself for it. But all she felt when it came was annoyance at the fact that he had caught her sitting on top of the corral fence, with little regard for dignity. It did not occur to her to jump down. She merely sat straight, smoothed down her skirt, and waited. ...
— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey
... the knots of her shoe-laces and the fastenings of her skirt, Janet turned toward her "perfectly horrid" oilcoat, which, as usual, had spent the night on the floor. As it would never come off till she had tortured her fingers on the edges of its big rusty buttons, she always parted from it on unpleasant terms, casting it from her; whereupon ...
— The Wrong Woman • Charles D. Stewart
... is absolutely not a tree of any kind to be seen. The only exception is in one or two bays or near the mouth of streams, where a stunted spruce growth is sometimes found in small patches. There are places where you may skirt the coast of Ungava Bay for a hundred miles and not see a shrub worthy the name of tree, even in ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace
... With a swish of pink gingham skirt a small, plump little girl came flying down the banister to land luckily on a red satin sofa cushion ...
— Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun • Mabel C. Hawley


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