Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without a skirt; destitute of a skirt.

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  • adjective Without a skirt.

Etymologies

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skirt +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Although Kellerman was arrested in Boston for appearing in public in the scandalous garb, in 1913 Carl Jantzen and his partners, John and Roy Zehntbauer, marketed a skirtless one-piece bathing suit for women.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Although Kellerman was arrested in Boston for appearing in public in the scandalous garb, in 1913 Carl Jantzen and his partners, John and Roy Zehntbauer, marketed a skirtless one-piece bathing suit for women.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Although Kellerman was arrested in Boston for appearing in public in the scandalous garb, in 1913 Carl Jantzen and his partners, John and Roy Zehntbauer, marketed a skirtless one-piece bathing suit for women.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Although Kellerman was arrested in Boston for appearing in public in the scandalous garb, in 1913 Carl Jantzen and his partners, John and Roy Zehntbauer, marketed a skirtless one-piece bathing suit for women.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • In this assembly, a beaver hat, unless napless and brimless, would be very rare; no one ever remembers to have seen a coat there, and should any one dare to present himself in a great coat, unless _a family man_, he would be sure to depart skirtless, or only in his waistcoat.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 377, June 27, 1829 Various

  • The low comedian as usual disports himself upon a three-legged stool, dressed in the never-to-be-worn-out short _non_-continuations, skirtless coat, and "eccentric" tile.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various

  • With a vindictive frown, Tadeo pulled open the student's cloak, and pointed to his skirtless coat.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

  • Will they be given military uniforms short of skirt or even skirtless?

    Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank

  • Without exception the garments were skirtless, and a large proportion of the suits were in one piece.

    The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908

  • We co-educationalists get a four years 'course in close-coupled conversation and girl classification while you fellows in the skirtless schools are getting the club habit and are saving up for the privilege of dancing with other fellows' fiancées at the proms once a year.

    At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

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