grass skirt
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4.2
- noun
:
falda de hierba
- The performers wore traditional grass skirts as they showcased the history and customs of the island.
- wearing grass skirts
- girls in grass skirts
- Women in grass skirts
Examples
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The six-hour, island-themed event included dinner, dancing, and a few dealers on stage in grass skirts doing the hula.
Blog text (23) -
His costume was a grass skirt.
Blog text (28) -
Four hundred men running around in grass skirts.
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The women wore ample grass skirts.
Fiction book (1991) -
We wore grass skirts.
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Most women still climb the slender trunks of coconut trees to cut young leaves and make their own grass skirts.
Academic text (1991) -
The child was dark-skinned with a mop of unruly curls and wearing a grass skirt.
Blog text (23) -
During the festival, the women danced gracefully in their colorful grass skirts, celebrating their culture.
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At the luau, the guests admired the dancers who twirled in bright grass skirts under the setting sun.
Synonyms
385
1.0
A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist and covers the legs
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a skirt made from long blades of grass' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'grass' (plant material) with 'skirt' (a garment). This noun–noun compound follows regular compositional patterns and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE's meaning (though cultural usage details may require extra context).
Etymology
Grass skirt comes from a simple picture: a skirt made of long pieces of grass that island dancers wore so the grass would move as they danced. That's why the phrase means 'a skirt made from long blades of grass, often worn in island ceremonies'.