Monokini vs Skirtini - What's the difference?
monokini | skirtini |
The lower part of a bikini worn without the upper part (i.e., worn bare-breasted).
* 1965 , "Topless Triumph", Time , 12 Mar 1965:
* 2009 , Angelique Crisafis, "France Falls Out of Love with Topless Sunbathing", The Guardian , 22 Jul 09:
A two-piece swimsuit consisting of a bikini or other style top (halter, tank, etc.) and a short, skirted bottom.
As nouns the difference between monokini and skirtini
is that monokini is the lower part of a bikini worn without the upper part (ie, worn bare-breasted) while skirtini is a two-piece swimsuit consisting of a bikini or other style top (halter, tank, etc) and a short, skirted bottom.monokini
English
Noun
(monokinis)- All this so impressed the Appellate Court in Aix-en-Provence that it reversed the convictions. "Inasmuch as the spectacle of the nudity of the human body has nothing intrinsic in it that would outrage normal, even delicate decency, and since Claudine Durand concealed her sexual parts with a sufficiently opaque monokini , we acquit her."
- French academics and historians have spent the early summer months pondering the sociological meaning of the demise of France's once-favourite piece of beachwear, the "monokini " – the bottom half of a bikini with no top.