skirt

They’re wearing shin plates engraved with illustrations of animals, and those skirts that Roman warriors used to wear.

Madame paused to rearrange her skirts, now that the smelly baby was gone from her lap, and drew her three eldest children close to her.

Penelope obliged, although she was not wearing an apron and the flour made white streaks on her skirt.

Margaret whizzed through the buttons on the back of the dress and tied the sash at the back of the skirt into a floppy bow.

According to Mrs. Clarke, the encounter could only be described as toreadorical: the outright threats and faked retreats, the defiant swirl of Lady Constance’s red skirts, the snorting, stamping protest of Lord Fredrick.