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skirt 1. a frieze or circular flap, as round the base of a hovercraft 2. the flaps on a saddle that protect a rider's legs 3. NZ the lower part of a sheep's fleece skirt [skərt] (aerospace engineering) (building construction) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Long Beach based architects Perkowitz & Ruth Architects were chosen to draw up redevelopment plans that had to skirt around several existing tenants. A ruddy, waist-high heap of apples, pears, plums, grapes, and figs forms a sort of hoop skirt around her. What could, in an area of villas and parks, have been a harsh proximity to its Neo-Classical neighbour has been rendered poetic by the skin of profiled glass which breaks up into vertical strips, providing a kind of glass skirt around ground floor parking. |
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