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- adjective of clothing That reaches to the
floor
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Examples
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Usually she wore a traditional floor-length wraparound Tibetan dress, her hip-long gray hair strung back in a knot topped with a green knitted cap above.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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Tabitha stepped forward, the folds of her wide floor-length gown cascading over my arm.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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The woman was wearing a floor-length, shiny black leather trench coat, which was unbuttoned, thus revealing the cause of both the grating, squeaking noise and her speed.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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Usually she wore a traditional floor-length wraparound Tibetan dress, her hip-long gray hair strung back in a knot topped with a green knitted cap above.
Michaela Haas: The Lamp Of The Teachings Shines On: One Of The Greatest Female Tibetan Buddhist Masters Dies Michaela Haas 2011
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The woman was wearing a floor-length, shiny black leather trench coat, which was unbuttoned, thus revealing the cause of both the grating, squeaking noise and her speed.
Bubble in the Bathtub Jo Nesbo 2011
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She leaned back in her chair, looked out the floor-length window, and saw, down below, a red convertible reversing, with nothing like due care and attention, out of a parking bay at the front of the building and into the roadway.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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He played on the iconic "marini è re" blue-and-white striped sailor's shirt by overlapping navy and ivory strips of organdy in a strapless floor-length gown.
In Haute Couture, '50s Glamour Meets the Cancan Christina Passariello 2011
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We spent less than an hour with Deion, but in that time we saw him take delivery of a floor-length mink coat, tape a segment in which he presented Christmas gifts to a group of angelic children while in character as “Sanders Claus,” and playfully accost former NFL coach Jerry Glanville, demanding that Glanville turn over a sack full of biscuits from a Popeyes fast-food restaurant.
In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011
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Rebecca Mir, a finalist on this year's "Germany's Next Top Model" TV reality show, walked the runway in a floor-length sunflower-yellow dress of French muslin that bounced with ruffles at the bust and hips.
Americana in Berlin, With Thanks to Elvis Mary M. Lane 2011
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Tabitha stepped forward, the folds of her wide floor-length gown cascading over my arm.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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