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Definition of Petticoats
1. petticoat [n] - See also: petticoat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petticoats
Literary usage of Petticoats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits by Alfred Cort Haddon, William Halse Rivers Rivers, Charles Gabriel Seligman, Charles Samuel Myers, William McDougall, Sidney Herbert Ray, Anthony Wilkin (1912)
"123 so that the stitch may be seen, but in the petticoats themselves they are
pressed so closely together as entirely to conceal the method of construction. ..."
2. Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume: From the 13th to the 19th Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1849)
"When men have said all by the way of abuse, They shall not be left quite without
an excuse ; Hoop'd petticoats they are of excellent use, Large hoop'd ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... VENTURED TO REFORM THE LADIE- petticoats, AND HOW HE CAUGHT A TARTAR. FROM what
I have recounted in the foregoing chapter I woul.i not have it imagined ..."
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