Skirt is still used to describe a process of removing the dirty or less usable pieces of a fleece after it is shorn from a sheep and I think that it is connected to this definition – especially considering the importance of sheep in the British Isles.
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Amy Clarke Moore:
September 9th, 2019 at 8:13 am
Skirt is still used to describe a process of removing the dirty or less usable pieces of a fleece after it is shorn from a sheep and I think that it is connected to this definition – especially considering the importance of sheep in the British Isles.