pencil skirt

English

Etymology

Modern pencil skirt

From pencil + skirt, referring to its shape.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛnsəl skɜːt/

Noun

pencil skirt (plural pencil skirts)

1. A slim skirt (clothing) with a straight and narrow cut, usually approximately knee-length.

   Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work.

   • 2004 November 1, Kate Betts, “Into the Wild”, in Time:

     And for Italian sportswear giant MaxMara, the cornerstone of the show was a crisp khaki safari jacket shown over a pencil skirt.

   • 2011 February 12, Grace Dent, The Guardian:

     For a long while I said any girl could get through round one of MasterChef simply by turning up in a pencil skirt and making a fried Nutella sandwich with condensed milk and an expression that says, "I like older men with no hair".

Translations

very narrow skirt

• Bulgarian: тясна пола f (tjasna pola)
• Catalan: faldilla de llapis f
• Dutch: kokerrok (nl) m, potloodrok m
• French: jupe-crayon (fr) f
• German: Bleistiftrock (de) m
• Portuguese: saia lápis f, saia tubo f
• Spanish: falda de tubo f, falda lápiz f, pollera tubo f
• Swedish: pennkjol c