hobble-skirted

adj

Etymology

From hobble skirt + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Wearing a hobble skirt.

    • MY MISSUS HAS THROWN ME OVER FOR THAT UGLY HOBBLE SKIRTED CREATURE - SUCH IS LIFE, WHEN ONE GETS OLD AND WRINKLED AND THE SAWDUST LEAKS OUT AT THE JOINTS!
    • In Paris it is said to create a small sensation in the neighborhood when a fair damsel hobble-skirted alights from her carriage or automobile.
    • “Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”

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