skirted

From skirt +‎ -ed.

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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.

skirted

1. simple past and past participle of skirt

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