The stain she eliminated entirely by cutting out the front panel and wearing it skimpier.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
At the last second it had seemed to me that the scenery was getting skimpier, hardly more than thin trees and bushes itself, and underfoot feeling more like ground than a ground cloth, and overhead not theater roof but gray sky.
"No Great Magic"
Fritz Reuter Leiber
Oxen will get along on skimpier grass, but they're slow.
"The Lost Wagon"
James Arthur Kjelgaard