divided skirt

English

Noun

divided skirt (plural divided skirts)

  1. A skirt in the form of loose trousers.
    • 1882, The Pall Mall Budget, page 9:
      [] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations []