underskirt
IPA: ˈʌndɝskɝt
noun
- A skirt worn underneath another skirt; a petticoat.
- An under layer of a multi-layer gown over which outer skirts are draped.
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Examples of "underskirt" in Sentences
- The underskirt is lace while the skirt and bodice are embroidered black velvet.
- YS has made me a wonderful new underskirt and if I'm lucky, I will receive a new pair of gloves in the mail tomorrow.
- Anemoona has graciously agreed to make a new underskirt for Ellenora, which means I don't have to fix anything about the costume.
- As I buttoned the waist I noticed the underskirt was about six inches longer than the upper, and for a moment I sat down on the bed and laughed at my own appearance.
- Coming together to launch NAHM for fall 2011, they fused their combined international experiences into one city-savvy line: think a burnt orange shirtdress with asymmetrical hem or black maxi dress with a shorter underskirt and long, sheer overlay.
- She had covered her little old curled leaf of a hat with a tea-colored corner that had been left, and puffed it up high and light to the point of the new style, with brown veil tissue that also floated off in an abundant cloudy grace behind; and she had such an air of breezy and ecstatic elegance as she came beaming and hastening into the early car, that nobody really looked down to see that the underskirt was the identical black brilliantine that had done service all the spring in the dismal mornings of waterproofs and india-rubbers and general damp woolen smells and blue nips and shivers.
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