Definition of "hemline" []

• The bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat. (noun)
• The height of the edge of such a garment, measured from the floor. (noun)

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• "That explains the neckline which does not plunge to your belly, revealin much of the beauty of your breasts, and the hemline, which is surely something less than slave short."
• "After her shoes my eyes caught the repeated glimmer of gold woven throughout the hemline of her dress."
• "Gaga is a deeply gifted thinker, writer, and student of style who, in her first column for V magazine, wrote: I can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork, or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it"