Skant

Memory Alpha, the uniform style the gentlemen is wearing is called a "skant." ❋ Kathy Ceceri (2012)

I just went to the trouble of putting on a hawaiian themed skant and went with a whole beachy ensemble, had daughter take pics, and then noticed the contest ended last night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who keeps thumbing down zozatron theoretically the creator of the original skant? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I now have skant fever and will stay up way to late awaiting the finalists ❋ Unknown (2010)

If I could these skant pants would be worn while giving birth to the Bryant Gumball. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have no shopping skills of that sort, but I did want to remark that you could pair a skant with a matching pullover, and WahLa, a crotchless jumpsuit! ❋ Unknown (2010)

OMG, that will look so hawt with a cute mini skant and maybe some uggs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is a skant albeit a short one – skornt? waiting to happen: ❋ Unknown (2010)

The one wearing green leggings and socks – or maybe those are other skant layers? ❋ Unknown (2010)

They had dinner over the open fire, the children were skiing and the sun was still shedding skant warmth on their fun. ❋ Torill (2005)

And when they haue dronke till their bealies stonde a strutte, so that they are skant able to retourne: euerye bodie layes him downe dronckardelike to reste his water bolne bealy, and that daye eateth nothing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But whan it began to be skant well kepte vppon the Sonday neither: then was it commaunded that euery manne should receiue it thrise in the yere, or ones at the leaste, at euery ❋ Unknown (2004)

At euery which alarme, the two Lordes Generall shewed themselues maruelous ready and forward, insomuch that at the very first alarme, skant wel furnished with any more defence then their shirts, hose, and dublets, and those too altogether in a maner vntied, they were abroad in the streets themselues, to see the vttermost of it. ❋ Unknown (2003)

After our going hence, which vvas the fourteenth of September, in the yeare of our Lord, one thowsand fiue hundred eightie and fiue: & taking our course towardes Spaine, vve had the winde for a fewe daies somevvhat skant, and sometimes calme. ❋ Walter Bigges (N/A)

Wishart's visit on that occasion may have been in August 1545, as we are told, "In this tyme the pest was wonder greit in all burrowis townis of this realme, quhair mony peipill deit with great skant and want of victuallis." ❋ John Knox (N/A)

Embassadours seruants, and he himselfe with nine of his seruants escaped very hardly onely by the power of God: but all his goods and ours in maner were lost and pilfred away by the Scots, and that that is saued is not yet come to our hands, but we looke for it daily, and it will skant pay the charges for the recouering of it. ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)