Definition of Hipline

1. Noun. The line formed by measuring the hip at its greatest part.

Generic synonyms: Line

2. Noun. The line formed by the lower edge of hip-length garment.
Group relationships: Garment
Generic synonyms: Line

Definition of Hipline

1. the distance around the hips [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hipline

hip tree
hip trees
hipberries
hipbone
hipbones
hipdom
hipflask
hipflasks
hiphalt
hiphugger
hiphuggers
hiplength
hipless
hiplessness
hiplike
hipline (current term)
hiplines
hiply
hipness
hipnesses
hipp-
hipparch
hipparchs
hipparion
hippe
hippeastrum
hipped
hippel-lindau disease
hippen
hippens

Literary usage of Hipline

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Compiled by Member of the Royal Geographical Society (1856)
"Deduct civil charges, management, «tc,. Ml.no.ono 17,80000 Which is accounted for thus— 1,23,00000 Ills hipline.se the Nizam's stipends, servants. ..."

2. Charis: Essays in Honor of Sara A. Immerwahr by Sara Anderson Immerwahr, Anne Proctor Chapin (2004)
"As these skirts are normally depicted in a frontal view, we can discern that what we see here is the right front flap, its upper portion (above the hipline) ..."

3. Annual Report by New Jersey, Bureau of Industrial Statistics (1908)
"William hipline, a workman employed in a Camden mill, had his left arm caught in some machinery and had several fingers and part of the arm severely ..."

4. F.A. Eschauzier: een orde voor de zintuigenby Jouke van der Werf, F. A. Eschauzier by Jouke van der Werf, F. A. Eschauzier (1999)
"... clothes hangers 186b clothes hanger with crocheted cover clothes hanger with shoulder shaper 187a inflatable clothes hanger 187b hipline 188 bared lower ..."

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