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pencil-skirted

pencil-skirted adjective: having a pencil skirt.

pencil-skirted: having a pencil skirt
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Adjective

pencil-skirted (not comparable)

  1. Having a pencil skirt.
    • High hats easily fit in with high necks, slim sleeves, pencil-skirted suits, straight box coats, long gloves and higher shoes.1937 November 5, Vivice, “Peeps in Fashion's Window”, in Runcorn Weekly News and District Reporter, page three
    • The new short coats for the season of 1945-46 show up to sparkling advantage in bright jewels colors over a pencil-skirted suit in black or navy.1945 August 30, “Fashions for a Colorful Autumn…”, in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, number 18,619, Knoxville, Tenn., page 3
  2. Wearing a pencil skirt.
    • Anyway, G. Peck lifted the quality of 1959 South Yarra, with its population of retired colonels, their blue-rinsed ladies and woolly-coated small dogs, the smart young narrow-lapelled, broad-minded advertising executives, the pencil-skirted, stiletto-heeled secretaries tok-tokking along the...1994 December 3, Michael Smith, “Backbites”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,526, section “Saturday Extra”, page 16
    • Take away those chauffeurs, those gasoline coupons, those platoons of pencil-skirted, lozenge-spectacled assistants.1999 January 15, “Toronto hostels filled with families and young people”, in The Edmonton Journal, page F9

Examples of pencil-skirted in a sentence

  • More fun than sun in a mirror… pencil-skirted tunic suit dress a-sparkle with bright ‘gold’ nailheads.1946 October 3, “Meyer Brothers”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 240, Paterson, N.J., page 20:
  • Plus, we keep having film noir fantasies about men in fedoras and their dangerous pencil-skirted gals downing sidecars.2004 October 20, Amina Akhtar, “London calling: New Brit pub The Globe’s got what ales you”, in Redeye (Chicago Tribune), section “Motel”...

Origin of pencil-skirted

From pencil skirt + -ed.

Questions about pencil-skirted

What does pencil-skirted mean?
Pencil-skirted means having a pencil skirt.
How do you use pencil-skirted in a sentence?
More fun than sun in a mirror… pencil-skirted tunic suit dress a-sparkle with bright ‘gold’ nailheads.
What part of speech is pencil-skirted?
Pencil-skirted is an adjective.

Words near pencil-skirted in the dictionary

  1. pencil-post beds
  2. pencil-pusher
  3. pencil-pushers
  4. pencil-sharpener
  5. pencil-sharpeners
  6. pencil-skirted
  7. pencil-thin
  8. pencilbeam
  9. pencilbeams
  10. penciled
  11. penciled in

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