hobble-skirted

English

Etymology

From hobble skirt +‎ -ed.

Adjective

hobble-skirted (not comparable)

1. Wearing a hobble skirt.
   • 1908, Caricature: Wit and Humor of a Nation in Picture, Song and Story:

     MY MISSUS HAS THROWN ME OVER FOR THAT UGLY HOBBLE SKIRTED CREATURE - SUCH IS LIFE, WHEN ONE GETS OLD AND WRINKLED AND THE SAWDUST LEAKS OUT AT THE JOINTS!

   • 1910 July 2, “Some Phases of the Hobble Skirt”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume X, number 234, Muncie, Ind., page five:

     In Paris it is said to create a small sensation in the neighborhood when a fair damsel hobble-skirted alights from her carriage or automobile.

   • 1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229:

     “Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”

   • 1991, Jean Maddern Pitrone, Hudson’s: Hub of America’s Heartland, West Bloomfield, Mich.: Altwerger and Mandel Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:

     Hobble-skirts became very popular at Hudson’s store in the 1905-1910 period, even though women who wore the stylish garments put themselves at risk to cross Woodward Avenue. On Woodward, pedestrians had to sidestep clanging trolleys, careening bicycles, sputtering motor cars, and snorting horses frightened by the clamor of unregulated traffic … equally frightened by the sight of hobble-skirted women, feather boas flowing from their shoulders and ostrich plumes fluttering from huge hats, mincing across the avenue and dodging the nervous delivery horses.

   • 2000 May 11, “Fashions through the ages on display”, in Merced Sun-Star, page B1:

     An extra step was added to street cars at this time to accommodate the hobble-skirted lady.