skirt: [13] Essentially skirt is the same word as shirt. It was borrowed from Old Norse skyrta ‘shirt’, which came from the same prehistoric Germanic source as English shirt, and likewise meant etymologically ‘short garment’. It is not clear why English came to use the word for ‘woman’s garment hanging from the waist’, but a link may be provided by modern Icelandic skyrta, which denotes a sort of long shirt with full tails that come down well below the waist. Swedish skört and Danish skørt ‘skirt’ were borrowed from the related Middle Low German schorte ‘apron’. => shear, shirt, short
skirt (n.)
early 14c., "lower part of a woman's dress," from Old Norse skyrta "shirt, a kind of kirtle;" see shirt. Sense development from "shirt" to "skirt" is possibly related to the long shirts of peasant garb (compare Low German cognate Schört, in some dialects "woman's gown"). Sense of "border, edge" (in outskirts, etc.) first recorded late 15c. Metonymic use for "women collectively" is from 1550s; slang sense of "young woman" is from 1906; skirt-chaser first attested 1942.
skirt (v.)
c. 1600, "to border, form the edge of," from skirt (n.). Meaning "to pass along the edge" is from 1620s. Related: Skirted; skirting.
实用例句
1. She wore a thick tartan skirt and a red cashmere sweater.
她穿了一条厚厚的格子呢裙和一件红色羊绒衫。
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2. She idly pulled at a loose thread on her skirt.
她无聊地扯着裙子上一根松掉的线头。
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3. This woman wore seamed nylons and kept smoothing her skirt.
这个女士穿着长筒尼龙缝袜，不停地把裙子弄平整。
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4. She was wearing a white ruffled blouse and a blue velvet skirt.
她穿着一件有花边的白色上衣和一条蓝色天鹅绒裙子。
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5. From her tiny waist a crinolined skirt cascaded in three deep tiers.
