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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A long skirt, popular between 1910 and 1914, that was so narrow below the knees that it restricted normal stride.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble.
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- noun A
skirt with a narrow enoughhem to significantly impede the wearer’sstride , or hobble the wearer.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914
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vendingmachine commented on the word hobble skirt
Ironically (or not), with the rising militancy of suffragists, skirts began to narrow until they became the barreled, banded style known as the hobble skirt or "the speed-limit skirt."
July 30, 2020