I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shirt/skirt/coat etc button
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Is this your coat button?
pencil skirt
skirting board
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Loretta picked up a straight black skirt from the bed and stepped into it.
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Her black skirt swayed from side to side.
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She wears a short black skirt and a holster on her belt.
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I could wear that with the black skirt and the red shoes.
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She was standing there half-dressed, a black skirt , no stockings yet, no shoes, a white blouse not buttoned.
dark
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In a high-collared striped blouse of blue and white, and a dark blue skirt , she looked attractively neat.
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She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt .
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Charlie stared at her gleaming white blouse and dark blue pleated skirt .
full
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Flared Skirt A full , panelled skirt falls beautifully from a back-elasticated waistband.
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She wore a cream-colored silk blouse and a full linen skirt nipped in at the waist.
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It buttons through down the back, is fitted to the waist and has a full flowing skirt .
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She is wearing a linen blouse, trimmed with lace, and a full blue skirt that swings as she moves.
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Finally, the show ended with an ivory satin bustier covered in ivory lace, with an ivory duchesse satin full skirt .
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Sister Zoe jerked around, her full black skirt ballooning as she hurried to my side.
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She felt the full skirt of her Summer dress being swept up to bare her silken thighs and round firm bottom.
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I am wearing a full circle-cut cotton skirt , my first, which I have made in home economics class.
long
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She also suggested that I wear a skirt , a long skirt.
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The women wear tight bodices over a long flowing skirt .
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Alan told me when I arrived at a restaurant wearing a long black skirt .
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The girl was in a long tweed skirt and long boots so that not an inch of leg was to be seen.
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She wore a long skirt and a baggy maroon V-neck sweater, one of mine she had appropriated and almost worn out.
pleated
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Reductions include a short pleated skirt down from £80 to £40, jeans down from Pounds 60 to £40.
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This version was more modest, with long sleeves and a pleated skirt .
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She settled on a plain pleated skirt in burgundy wool, a cream blouse and a lightweight cashmere sweater.
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Below her elegant jacket she wore a short pleated skirt and a pair of plastic sandals.
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Where to hang the steaming kit for a shadow pleated skirt is always quite a problem.
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Charlie stared at her gleaming white blouse and dark blue pleated skirt .
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Next Directory pleated chiffon skirt , £64.99.
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She wore a white tennis outfit consisting of a blouse and a short pleated skirt .
short
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The shorts were pleated about the waist and flared widely, giving an illusion of being a too short skirt .
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Daughter Chelsea wore a blue-gray, military-inspired jacket with a matching coat and a short A-line skirt .
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I felt so cross with myself, so stupid for wearing a short skirt .
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Below her elegant jacket she wore a short pleated skirt and a pair of plastic sandals.
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She was wearing a uniform with a very short skirt and a white col-lar and lapels.
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But fashion, as always, changed and the short skirt fell - literally - from favour and started skimming the ankles.
straight
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Loretta picked up a straight black skirt from the bed and stepped into it.
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She put on a straight yellow skirt , just brushing her knee, and a matching vest-top.
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I decided to line my skirt with anti-static polyester skirt lining material and used a straight skirt paper pattern as a guide.
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She was wearing a fashionable knee-length straight skirt , a silk blouse in a vivid jade-green, and slender-heeled shoes.
tight
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Meanwhile I was fainting in the back seat, just thinking of what that tight black mid-thigh skirt concealed.
■ NOUN
cotton
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When she came back, Alice had changed into a cotton skirt and a white blouse that was too small for her.
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I am wearing a full circle-cut cotton skirt , my first, which I have made in home economics class.
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She picked up a cotton skirt patterned with roses.
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She was wearing a white blouse, frilled with lace at collar and cuffs, and a long, mid-grey cotton skirt .
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She held a plump baby of about seven months on her hip, and a toddler clutched at her cotton skirt .
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She was wearing a long white cotton skirt , flat shoes, and hand-knit cotton top in pale pink.
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She slipped out of her cotton skirt and the enormously full paper nylon petticoat she wore beneath it.
leather
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The indescribable sting wrenched a high-pitched squeal from her throat, as she clutched the leather skirt which covered her burning seat.
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She wore an emerald green silk shirt, a very short black leather skirt and black tights.
pencil
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Belted suit and long slim line pencil skirt with split, in raspberry, teal and black, £69.99.
tweed
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Jenny, in a purple tweed skirt and a leather jerkin and black boots, stepped delicately inside.
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The girl was in a long tweed skirt and long boots so that not an inch of leg was to be seen.
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She was dressed in a sensible tweed skirt and a rather elegant cashmere sweater.
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Her tweed skirt was soaking and its friction rubbed sore patches behind her knees.
■ VERB
feel
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I touched the tip of the rag through my skirt and felt it move against my skin.
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Mitchell inhaled the laundered fragrance of her skirt , felt the pack of muscles on her thighs beneath the denim.
smooth
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And then she moved and with trembling hands smoothed down her skirt .
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Astrid smoothed her skirt over her hips and sat down.
tug
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She tugged at her skirt and adjusted her waistband.
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She tugged at Thérèse's skirt .
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Helen, you mustn't tug her skirt so, you will quite part it from the waistband.
wear
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Below the cardigan she wore a crumpled orange skirt almost to the floor, and black boots.
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She also suggested that I wear a skirt , a long skirt.
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I felt so cross with myself, so stupid for wearing a short skirt .
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She wore a long skirt and a baggy maroon V-neck sweater, one of mine she had appropriated and almost worn out.
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She wears a short black skirt and a holster on her belt.
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I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it.
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Below her elegant jacket she wore a short pleated skirt and a pair of plastic sandals.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit of stuff/fluff/skirt
full-length skirt/dress/coat etc
midi skirt/dress/coat
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the skirt was so full and my arm so tired that I seemed to be getting nowhere.
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Daughter Chelsea wore a blue-gray, military-inspired jacket with a matching coat and a short A-line skirt .
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Her black skirt swayed from side to side.
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The women wear tight bodices over a long flowing skirt .
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Tina looked fantastic in whatever she wore, particularly jeans or a tennis skirt .
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Today I was all-silk, navy blue blouse and skirt .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Convention demanded that a woman must skirt around the truth, fobbing off a man while leading him on.
■ NOUN
edge
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We skirted its edges on our way to meet him.
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But here on the Tatshenshini they cautiously skirted the edges of the whitewater, seeking the most prudent line.
issue
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Intel carefully skirted the issues of Pentium's price and delivery at its ostensible introduction last month.
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She didn't know what, but it wasn't like her to skirt an issue .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hurricane Ben skirted the Florida coast before moving back out to sea.
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The report skirted the issue of the government's responsibility for the crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I skirted the dike district too - or at any rate two big chicks denied me entry to their purple sanctum.
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It is four miles south of Driffield, and skirted by the Driffield-Beverley road.
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Scarlet relaxed a little: a mine had been skirted.
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We skirted its edges on our way to meet him.
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We maneuvered the canoe so it skirted just past that rock.
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Wild horse and donkey tracks skirted the bases of red, sedimentary hills.