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Be fussily busy making frame for skirt (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

bustle

I believe this clue is a double definition.

'be fussily busy' is the first definition.
(as in bustling about)

'frame for skirt' is the second definition.
(historical type of frame for a skirt)

'making' is the link.

(Other definitions for bustle that I've seen before include "Victorian fashion" , "Sublet (anag)" , "A show of hurrying, or old skirt back padding" , "Subtle kind of hubbub" , "Excited activity of subtle sort" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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