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Synonyms for petticoat
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : pet-ee-koht |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛt iˌkoʊt |
Définition of petticoat
Origin :- early 15c., pety coote, literally "a small coat," from petty + coat (n.). Originally a padded coat worn by men under armor, applied mid-15c. to a garment worn by women and young children. By 1590s, the typical feminine garment, hence a symbol of female sex or character.
- Men declare that the petticoatless female has unsexed herself and has left her modesty behind. ["Godey's Magazine," April 1896]
- noun underwear
- This is my dress, and there's a petticoat and stockings to match it.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- Indecent, if you ask me, with not a petticoat under it, I'll be bound!
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- You see it is impossible for him to stop in here with you for ever, as if he was sewn on to your petticoat.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- But she soon laid it down on the work-table, between a petticoat and a bundle of shirts.
- Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
- So the day of the petticoat politician is not over in Italy yet?
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- But sink me now if I'd rot myself in rum on account of anything that wears a petticoat.
- Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini
- Would she not condescend to wear a few gems in her petticoat?
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- Well, there was a skirt, a petticoat, some stockings and other things.
- Extract from : « The Mysterious Murder of Pearl Bryan » by Unknown
- She made one petticoat, and then gently appealed to her husband.
- Extract from : « Is He Popenjoy? » by Anthony Trollope
- It's a pity this kind of thing can't be worked without a petticoat.
- Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice
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