Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
Etymologies
- see sky (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But Martin skied over Alvin Williams to tip in the rebound.”
“Cruiser Winter Ale is the kind of beer I'd want to drink after coming in from a cold day of skiing (if I skied, that is).”
“Mr. Rogers has sidestepped this potential aesthetic booby trap by installing everything in the 19th-century manner — paintings "skied" on the walls, and sculpture filling the gallery as it would have been seen in its own day — a nonjudgmental approach that simply treats the work as part of our art and cultural history.”
The Wall Street Journal: The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
“He stopped showing at the Royal Academy when his paintings were contemptuously "skied" (hung high on the wall).”
“Fortunately, most of these last are "skied," which is a blessing!”
“The lower four rows can be reached readily, but not a few suffer the pain of being "skied," where only those who chance to glance upward will notice them.”
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
“If books are 'skied' up to the ceiling they must suffer from the heated air.”
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“Moreover, from the artists 'point of view it was realised that the outrage constituted a sort of compensation for those whose works were persistently' skied ', since out of sight meant also out of reach.”
“Beside studies in the Chapel of St. George, he copied Carpaccio's "Dream of St. Ursula" which was taken down -- it had been "skied" at the Academy until then -- and placed in the sculpture gallery; and be laboured to produce a facsimile.”
“Mr. Lavery's charming portrait of Lord McLaren's daughters was still more shamefully treated; it was "skied".”
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