| 单词 | modesty skirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmodesty skirt modesty skirt n. a skirt or skirt-like piece of fabric placed around something for the purpose of concealment; also in extended use. ΚΠ 1967 Autocar 5 Oct. 32/1 Inside the car,..there are ‘modesty skirts’ around the front seat mechanisms to improve appearance. 1983 Newsweek (U.S.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 41 A green and blue ‘modesty skirt’ around the keel and armed guards keeping prying eyes away. 1995 Commonweal (Electronic ed.) 20 Oct. The casket was invisible, fully draped by a voluminous modesty-skirt of green baize. 1997 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 30 Mar. 5 Early 19th-century bathing costumes were highly respectable, covering everything from the knee to the shoulder... By the Thirties they'd shrunk to the top of the thigh, but even the boy's wore ‘modesty’ skirts. < as lemmas |
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