skirted
Collocations
4ADJ.
green, most, noisy, under
VERB + SKIRTED
bridge, felt, flesh, like, wear
SKIRTED + NOUN
cartwheels, girl, hills, pyjamas
PREP.
around
Definitions
adj
Wearing a skirt.
[…] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
Having a skirt.
Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
Bordered.
Passed around; evaded.
a skirted topic of conversation
Narrowly missed.
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Example Bank
6[…] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
WiktionaryCarefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
WiktionaryWomen should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
WiktionaryI felt that he skirted around the most important issues.
Tatoeba · #293826We skirted green hills, which sparkled in the first rays of sunshine.
Tatoeba · #5521802Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.
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