Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part.
  • noun the line formed by the lower edge of hiplength garment.

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  • noun textiles The line of a garment around the hips.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment
  • noun the line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part

Etymologies

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hip +‎ line

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Examples

  • View 3 features a back kick pleat and tab trim at hipline. go ahead!

    Wiki How-To and Contest! - A Dress A Day 2007

  • View 3 features a back kick pleat and tab trim at hipline. go ahead!

    December 2007 2007

  • You can take any straight-dress pattern sheath or, for me, princess line, seamed at the hip or not, and put a row of Big Decorative Buttons at the hipline.

    Two skirts are better than one. - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Here and there in the collar, I put little violet satin bows, the streamers coming down from underneath the collar to the hipline of the dress, as if the bows had been made and then pulled through the top.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • If you dropped the skirt length, you had to drop the hipline of the top for it to look right.

    Women I Have Dressed (and Undressed!) Arnold Scaasi 2004

  • She was a little busty and had a very attractive hipline, but gave an impression of being small and compact.

    hey jennie baldanders 2001

  • She was a little busty and had a very attractive hipline, but gave an impression of being small and compact.

    hey jennie baldanders 2001

  • Gwenhidwy is drinking from the bottle, carrying on a running slap-and-tickle with Estelle and getting in a fast game of where'd-he-go-there-he-is with Arch her youngest around the broad mouton hipline of his mother who keeps trying to smack him but he's too fast.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • West and east the view was the same; though the blue hipline was lacking in those directions.

    Red Nails Howard, Robert E. 1975

  • She will be wearing slim-silhouette pajamas with padded shoulders and a back-flaring hipline.

    Man Alive 1947

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