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Conceptual system
circular skirt
Domain:  Garments
Subdomain (1st level):  Skirt
Table:  Table 8
Noun phrase
Countable
Definition:  Skirt made in circular shape, often by use of gores, and hanging in unbroken ripples from waist to hem; also made from a fabric circle.
DCF, 1999
Context:  A fully circular skirt is, as described, where the hem forms a full circle: as the length of the skirt increases, so will the size of the circle and its circumference, so increasing the amount of fullness. To reduce the fullness and the amount of “kick” in the skirt, a half-circle skirt can be cut, and to reduce these features even further, a quarter-circle skirt can be cut.
Stevenson, 1985
Attestation:  10
Contains:  pocket, waistband, fly
Co-hyponyms:  wraparound skirt, pleated skirt, miniskirt, straight skirt, bell skirt, bubble skirt, A-line skirt
Hyperonyms:  skirt
It:  gonna a ruota
Degree of reliability:  10
Vocabolario illustrato della moda, 2004