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Conceptual system
bell skirt
Domain:  Garments
Subdomain (1st level):  Skirt
Table:  Table 8
Noun phrase
Countable
Definition:  Skirt usually gathered at waistline, making it full over the hips and flared at hem.
FDF, 1988
Context:  An original silhouette is found in the crinkled superpositions of the long skirt coupled with the cropped white suit jacket with wide lapels and saddle-stitching. The asymmetric bell skirt in the same material with single-buttoned double-breasted jacket is equally as riveting and a tad more liberated.
Minimidimaxi magazine, 2004
Attestation:  5
Contains:  pocket, waistband, fly
Co-hyponyms:  wraparound skirt, pleated skirt, miniskirt, straight skirt, bubble skirt, circular skirt, A-line skirt
Hyperonyms:  skirt
It:  gonna a campana
Degree of reliability:  10
Vocabolario illustrato della moda, 2004