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What does "skirt" mean?

Skirt: 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. Addison.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.
  2. 3.A petticoat.
  3. 4.The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals. Dunglison.
  4. 5.To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. Milton.
  5. 6.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." Tennyson.
  6. 7.To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity. Savages . . . who skirt along our western frontiers. S. S. Smith.

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