Definition of skirt

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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..

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Cheese :: Cheese (n.) A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt..
Cotillion :: Cotillion (n.) A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
Skirted :: Skirted (imp. & p. p.) of Skir.
Long-waisted :: Long-waisted (a.) Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments; as, a long-waisted coat..
Princesse :: Princesse (a.) A term applied to a lady's long, close-fitting dress made with waist and skirt in one..
Skirting :: Skirting (n.) A skirting board.
Soutane :: Soutane (n.) A close garnment with straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock..
Skirt :: Skirt (n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts..
Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural..
Wigan :: Wigan (n.) A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England..
Outskirt :: Outskirt (n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town..
Skirting :: Skirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skir.
Skirt :: Skirt (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Lap :: Lap (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
Quilt :: Quilt (n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover..
Basque :: Basque (n.) A part of a lady's dress, resembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques..
Skirt :: Skirt (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals..
Foreskirt :: Foreskirt (n.) The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train..
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