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skirt

1. To cover with a skirt; to surround. Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold. (milton)

2. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees. When sundown skirts the moor.

Origin: Skirted; Skirting.