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A-line skirt
Domain:  Garments
Subdomain (1st level):  Skirt
Table:  Table 8
Noun phrase
Countable
Definition:  Slighly flared skirt introduced in the early 1960s. In silhouette it appears like the letter A.
FDF, 1988
Context:  The ’70s was the heyday of “separates” dressing and the A-line skirt continued to flourish. Saint Laurent did his own front-button version in 1974 and just about everybody else, including Dior, Anne Klein and Missoni, had a crack at this now-classic silhouette.
Dubin, Berman, 2000
Attestation:  10
Contains:  waistband, pocket
Co-hyponyms:  wraparound skirt, pleated skirt, miniskirt, straight skirt, bell skirt, bubble skirt, circular skirt
Hyperonyms:  skirt
Synonyms:  flared skirt
It:  gonna a trapezio
Degree of reliability:  10
Vocabolario illustrato della moda, 2004