skirted

Meanings

adjectiveskirted (not comparable)

not comparableWearing a skirt.
[…] a small glass box in which you wander, swivel, waver, flashing your flesh like a skirted girl doing cartwheels on the lawn.
2007, Naomi Guttman, Wet Apples, White Blood, page 68
Synonyms: beskirted, skirty
not comparableHaving a skirt.
Carefully the child tried to cover her deformed leg under her skirted pyjamas.
1979, Qurratulain Hyder, A Woman’s Life, Chetana Publications
2 more examples
Women should wear skirted suits or dresses with dress shoes; pantsuits are not usually worn.
2012, Jeanette S. Martin, Lillian H. Chaney, Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs, 2nd edition, Praeger, →ISBN, page 87
The women whose new jobs required pants, overalls, or skirted uniforms broke dramatically with convention.
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
not comparableBordered.
not comparablePassed around; evaded.
a skirted topic of conversation
not comparableNarrowly missed.

verb

adjectiveWearing a skirt.

Similar

Also see

From skirt + -ed.

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