See pencil skirt on Wiktionary
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"text": "Anna decided to wear a black pencil skirt with her blue blouse that day to work.",
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"ref": "2004 November 1, Kate Betts, “Into the Wild”, in Time:",
"text": "And for Italian sportswear giant MaxMara, the cornerstone of the show was a crisp khaki safari jacket shown over a pencil skirt.",
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"ref": "2011 February 12, Grace Dent, The Guardian:",
"text": "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\".",
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"roman": "tjasna pola",
"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "тясна пола"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "faldilla de llapis"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "potloodrok"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "jupe-crayon"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "Bleistiftrock"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "тясна пола"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "faldilla de llapis"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "potloodrok"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "jupe-crayon"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "Bleistiftrock"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"word": "saia lápis"
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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"sense": "very narrow skirt",
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