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poodle skirt en · NOUN
Meanings
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A wide felt knee-length skirt of a solid bold colour displaying a design appliquéd or transferred to the fabric, originally of a coiffed French poodle; popular in the United States in the 1950s.
Some of the most political dykes in town had already converted, tossing out their Levi's and Birkenstocks in favor of poodle skirts and heels.
1986 [1984], Armistead Maupin, Babycakes (Tales of the City), page 64:
Forms
Deriveds
poodle-skirted