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noun 
  1. An article of clothing, usually worn by woman, women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower part of the body.
  2. The part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist.
  3. Something resembling a skirt.
  4. (slang) A woman.
  5. A part that serves as a border or edging.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: rok
  • French: jupe
  • German: Saum
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: gonna
  • Spanish: falda , enaguas (italbrac, Costa Rica, Nicaragua), pollera (italbrac, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay), saya (italbrac, Cuba)
verb 
  1. To be on or form the border of.
  2. To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: omzomen, omcirkelen
  • German: umgehen, umrunden
Etymology: From Old Norse skyrta, from Germanic
  • skurtijon. Compare shirt.


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