skirted

English

Etymology

From skirt + -ed.

Adjective

skirted (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Bordered.
  4. Passed around; evaded.
    a skirted topic of conversation
  5. Narrowly missed.

Verb

skirted

  1. simple past and past participle of skirt

Anagrams

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