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Conceptual system
balloon skirt
Domain:  Garments
Subdomain (1st level):  Skirt
Noun phrase
Countable
Synonym of:  bubble skirt
Context:  It got better still when Ghesquière delved, with his usual rigor, into the house archive to retrieve Cristobal Balenciaga’s gazar balloon skirt. Paired with yet more tiny, nipped-waist flying jackets or his signature shrunken knits, the contrast was unexpected, contemporary, cool.
Style, 2004
Attestation:  5