Definition of Skirt

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Definition of Skirt

Skirt

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.

A loose edging to any part of a dress.

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything

A petticoat.

The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.

To cover with a skirt; to surround.

To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.

To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.

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Skirt Quotations

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.
Naomi Campbell

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Billie Jean King

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.
Brian Molko

Cameron Diaz was so cute at the MTV Movie Awards when she pulled her skirt up and wiped her armpits.
Pink

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.
Carol Moseley Braun

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
Kristen Bell

One of my favorites is The Sound of Music. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
Mark Roberts

Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
Chiaki Kuriyama

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
Shirley Chisholm

Skirt Translations

skirt in Afrikaans is rok, romp
skirt in Danish is nederdel
skirt in Dutch is rok, vrouwenrok
skirt in Finnish is hame
skirt in French is jupe
skirt in German is Rock, herumgehen
skirt in Italian is gonna
skirt in Portuguese is saia
skirt in Spanish is falda

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