shark bite

English

a dress with a shark bite hem

Alternative forms

• shark-bite
• sharkbite

Etymology

From the resemblance of the hemline to an object which has had a large chunk bitten off by a shark.

Adjective

shark bite (not comparable)

1. (fashion) Having a hemline that curves inward in a deep, symmetrical vee.
   • 2018, Sonya Weiss, The Firefighter's Perfect Plan, unnumbered page:

     She'd changed her long-sleeved shirt three times before settling on a paisley print one with a shark bite hem.

   • 2018, Lina Chern, "Filigree", Black Fox Literary Magazine, Winter 2018, pages 96-97:

     She didn't look like the other nurses, with her red shark-bite top, impractical heels, and frosted Bardot bun.

   • 2019, G. P. Gardener, Murder at Royale Court, unnumbered page:

     Patti was tall and slender with a halo of shiny curls, and today she was wearing red glasses, little round ones that reminded me of John Lennon and matched her shark-bite tunic.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shark bite.

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