A-line
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]A-line (not comparable)
- Having a silhouette that replicates the letter A by flaring out from the top, like a funnel, narrow and fitted at the neck and shoulders, skimming the hips and widening toward the bottom, with little or no shaping or seaming at the waist.
Noun
[edit]- Any article of clothing with a narrow mid-section and a flared bottom.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Brown, Lesley (2003)
Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “A-line”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 1.