There was a maroon dress, with basque and overskirt over white silk; a rich cream-colored satin; and then this black sequined gown, which she finally chose.
Gradually the overskirt is looped back, (at first only a few inches), and tied with narrow ribbons.
The overskirt was now looped back, the points being held together, giving a wide display of the underskirt, which was heavily banded or had a jewel setting down the front.
Some of the flowers fell from her overskirt in the surprise with which she regarded him.
She looked like a child, with the front of her white overskirt held up in her hands and filled with flowers.
She looks furtively past him and sees Laurel, too, the sunlight shining on the fair young face, her white apron-overskirt heaped high with flowers after her usual fashion, the refrain of a song on her lips that floats back to them in snatches.
In getting through the bars she dropped the mull overskirt and did not perceive her loss.
Then she came through the common room again, with her overskirt over her head, went out, and left the door ajar.
The Sora Nanna, who had been spending the evening with a friend in the neighbourhood, came in, her thin black overskirt drawn over her head to keep the embroidered head-cloth in its place.
Madame should have a robe de silk, very complete, with flowers in her hair entirely, and an overskirt to the fore, garnitured with Limerick point.
An overskirt before," says I, lifting both hands, satchel and all.
Permit me to say I never could submit to wear an overskirt in the way you speak of--wrong side before--why, it would look dreadfully.
Then she arose, shook out her pretty skirt with its simple but tasteful overskirt of flowered cloth, and began a leisurely homeward walk.
The overskirt of gauze and gold was looped high at the sides over a skirt or petticoat of white brocaded satin with a figure of pink roses.
It was composed of a grosgrain silk petticoat of the hue known as apricot, trimmed with mauve and pale turquoise shades; the overskirt was caught back at either side with a turquoise bow and the train was of plain turquoise.
One unfortunate woman wearing an overskirt covering a striped cambric sham, was seen daily struggling, with intense disgust on her face, up the steps of the eating house, with her unruly overskirt waving wildly in the wind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overskirt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
