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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 enough hem to significantly impede the wearer’s stride, or hobble the wearer.

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  • noun a long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914

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  • 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