"skirt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Her hooped skirt matched the color of the pelisse, and was accented with double vertical stripes of black.
- They were adopted in the 1850s because of the advent of the hooped skirt or crinoline.
- Then came a hooped skirt, then a quilted petticoat, then an ordinary petticoat and, finally, a dress.
- Its great hooped skirt hung from the armpits and spread like a bell-tent to the ground.
- Behind them, near the unlit bonfire, stood Dr. Otterly and Ralph, who was again dressed in his great hooped skirt.
- Besides, if the hooped skirt gave me the opportunity to experience the rarefied strata to which the rest of you folks are accustomed, why not go for it?
- It makes you want to run down it in a hooped skirt and gloves.
- She wore a seventeenth-century dress of white satin brocade, with a hooped skirt, which admirably set off her fair colouring.
- She gathered her full hooped skirt and marched towards him.
- At the center of the room stands, tentlike, the walk-in form of a woman's white hooped skirt, 19th-century formal attire.
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