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skirt
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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)


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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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