skirt
(skɜːʳt )
Word forms: skirts , skirting , skirted
1. countable noun A1
A skirt is a piece of clothing that fastens at the waist and hangs down around the legs.
Synonyms: border, edge, margin, fringe
2. verb
Something that skirts an area is situated around the edge of it.
We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: border, edge, lie alongside, line
3. verb
If you skirt something, you go around the edge of it.
We shall be skirting the island on our way. [VERB noun]
She skirted round the edge of the room to the door. [V + round/around]
Synonyms: go round, bypass, walk round, circumvent
4. verb
If you skirt a problem or question, you avoid dealing with it.
He skirted the hardest issues, concentrating on areas of possible agreement. [VERB noun]
He skirted round his main differences with her. [V + round/around]
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Collocations:
skirt an issue tweed skirt voluminous skirt wrap skirt
It's curious that the film-makers appear willing to skirt the issue.
Times, Sunday Times
I had always been able to skirt the issue.
Times,Sunday Times
He makes multiple attempts to propose to her, but she manages to skirt the issue until the end.
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It was time to stop skirting the issue.
Christianity Today
But she doesn't skirt the issues.
Times, Sunday Times
Would your 14-year-old daughter wear a calf-length tweed skirt and a hand-knitted cardigan?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She was in new black boots, a swirling tweed skirt and jacket, a high-ruffled blouse: her hair was perfectly coiffured.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
She was a wiry haired woman, thin as a matchstick in her long tweed skirt and shapeless blouse.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS (1994)
Next up there was a tweed skirt.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Take this tweed skirt onto the street with a grey sweat.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Wear a skinny top with a voluminous skirt.
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Luckily, for both plays, her costumes have voluminous skirts.
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Those wild proportions, my dears - the voluminous skirts, the etiolated jeans, the low waists, the high waists, the notquite-on-the-waist waists - require, no, they demand something arresting on the feet.
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This chic leather wrap skirt will become your wardrobe saviour, but it doesn't come cheap.
The Sun
I'd match these wrapped leather skaters with a wrap skirt and wrap jacket.
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What makes a wrap skirt more flattering than a pencil?
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Khaki wrap skirts had button-down pannier pockets and sharp outerwear was cut to look like frock coats from the front but were knitted at the back.
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Her louche lounge dresses in paisley prints, frill-trimmed wrap skirts and embroidered minidresses are the ones to pack.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 裙子, 位于…的边缘
Japanese: スカート, ぐるっと囲む