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Skirt :: Skirt (v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.

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..

Tournure :: Tournure (n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

Skirting :: Skirting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skir.

Flounce :: Flounce (n.) An ornamental appendage to the skirt of a woman's dress, consisting of a strip gathered and sewed on by its upper edge around the skirt, and left hanging..

Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A lady's skirt made of any stiff material; latterly, a hoop skirt..

Farthingale :: Farthingale (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat..

Skirt :: 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..

Hip :: Hip (n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions..

Bustle :: Bustle (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure..

Mopboard :: Mopboard (n.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.

Skirted :: Skirted (imp. & p. p.) of Skir.

Skirt :: Skirt (v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity..

Outskirt :: Outskirt (n.) A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town..

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..

Underskirt :: Underskirt (n.) A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.

Foreskirt :: Foreskirt (n.) The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train..

Crinoline :: Crinoline (n.) A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair..

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..

Skirt :: Skirt (n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals..

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