Definition of "skirted" [skirted]

• Bordered (adjective)
• Passed around (adjective)
• Narrowly missed (adjective)
• Evaded (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of skirt. (verb)

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• "Exquisitely clad in short-skirted Chanel suits, both Mrs. Buckley and Mrs. Brown had what looked to me to be the most enormous knees and tiny little legs imaginable."
• "Behind him his two girls, in short-skirted costumes, white stockings, and low shoes, their heads powdered and earrings sparkling in their ears, huddled together behind their father, wrapped up in their light mantles."
• "Also, they will do things for people in short-skirted velveteen coats with bone buttons, or in sleeved waistcoats and fur caps, which they cannot be persuaded by the respectable orders of society to undertake."