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What is a gymslip?

What is a gymslip? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A sleeveless tunic with a pleated skirt, most commonly seen as part of a girl's school uniform.
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She'd swapped the print dress for a plain white blouse and brown gymslip.
I'd go out barefoot, then cross the road to where I kept my brother's old cast-off trousers hidden in some bushes, take my gymslip off and change into the trousers.
It clarifies character, as in the case of Samantha Whittaker's Ophelia, who becomes a gauche, gymslip schoolgirl with a fatal crush on the not-particularly interested Hamlet.
Stephen Boxer, guilt-fixated in a creased pinstripe suit, and Leah Muller, provocatively sexy in gymslip and fishnet tights, are very good as the father and stepdaughter.
Oi, I yelled at the radio, I'm not responsible for any gymslip mums, honest, booze-fuelled depravity on a very minor scale, maybe, and I'm not divorced, either.
One detects, in these gymslip escapades, an early solution to the problem later countered more consistently by New Orleans jazz itself: how to escape from the awful burden of being Philip Larkin?

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