gathered skirt
- noun
- She had on a full gathered skirt of a gauzy blue fabric; strands of gold shimmered through the threads.
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Watch on YouTubeWhen you get skirts like big gathered skirts or circle skirts, you don't have to even worry about the hip measurement there.
- When you get skirts like big gathered skirts or circle skirts, you don't have to even worry about the hip measurement there.
Examples
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She wore a long gathered skirt with contrasting bands of patterned fabric, Birkenstocks, and a voile peasant blouse.
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And then to have a gathered skirt, this would stick out quite a bit.
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When you get skirts like big gathered skirts or circle skirts, you don't have to even worry about the hip measurement there.
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She had on a full gathered skirt of a gauzy blue fabric; strands of gold shimmered through the threads.
Fiction book (1992) -
The neckline was modest, the gathered skirt fuller than anything she ever wore.
Synonyms
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1.0
A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist and covers the legs
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2.6
A long, wide skirt gathered at the waist that spreads out
How Full
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'gathered' describes fabric drawn together and 'skirt' names the garment, so a skirt made by gathering the fabric at the waist is immediately inferable from the parts. The adjective+noun pattern and the clothing sense of 'gather' are common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner knowing both constituents and seeing context would readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun gathered skirt is named for how the cloth is gathered: the fabric is pulled together at the waist to make soft folds. That's why it means a skirt with extra 'fullness' and movement.