floor-length

American

[flawr-lengkth, -length, flohr-] / ˈflɔrˌlɛŋkθ, -ˌlɛŋθ, ˈfloʊr- /

adjective

extending to the floor.

a floor-length skirt.

Etymology

Origin of floor-length

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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Her yellow, floor-length gown was in keeping with her classic sophisticated and elegant red carpet style.

From BBC

She was dressed, like her sisters, in a floor-length gown.

From Literature

Older teens and adult women wore floor-length dresses.

From Literature

“I grew up watching Ben Shapiro on YouTube and his debates and I felt like the Republican movement was just a lot of men in big leather chairs smoking cigars,” the conservative commentator Brett Cooper, 24, said at the party, in a floor-length dress standing next to her husband.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gallina, 75, was clad in a floor-length dark green striped appliqué jacket and clutching a paper ticket when she declared the Olympics to be a nuisance that has “nothing to do with Milan’s essence.”

From The Wall Street Journal

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