Skirting: alternatives and connections

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

Pertaining to Biscay, its people, or their language.

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for…

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made o…

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse i…

The front skirt of a garment, in distinction from the train.

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons.

An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now co…

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

Of or pertaining to the Poles, or to Poland.