| 单词 | hobble-skirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmashobble-skirt 4. In full hobble-skirt. A close-fitting skirt usually confined by a wide band below the knees and above the ankles. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > close-fitting tunnel skirt1870 sheath1904 hobble1911 slit skirt1913 tube skirt1948 1911 Smart Set Mar. 40 A hobble skirt is an awful habit to get into. 1912 Punch 3 Apr. 255/1 The continued success of the hobble..has..restricted the use of textile material. 1918 Wireless World Oct. 372 A feminine atrocity in a cerise muslin sheath on ‘hobble-skirt’ lines. 1920 M. Asquith Autobiogr. I. 221 From the hoop to the hobble is not a more violent change than from the riding-hats of 1894 to the riding-hats of 1917. 1921 C. Torr Small Talk at Wreyland ii. 69 I said, ‘You don't go in for hobble-skirts, I see.’ 1969 H. E. Bates Vanished World vii. 71 Ladies in flowered hats and hobble skirts. < as lemmas |
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