Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing petticoats.
- In electricity, having a petticoat. See
petticoat , 7.
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- adjective wearing a
petticoat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective wearing or furnished with a petticoat
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Examples
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French designer Christian Dior is usually credited with popularizing the "New Look" -- which featured a cinched waist and huge, petticoated skirt -- in 1947.
Meet America's Once-Great, Now-Obscure Designers (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The little girls wore bright pastels, even in winter, lacy little socks, and white nylon sweaters over their petticoated party dresses.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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The little girls wore bright pastels, even in winter, lacy little socks, and white nylon sweaters over their petticoated party dresses.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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The little girls wore bright pastels, even in winter, lacy little socks, and white nylon sweaters over their petticoated party dresses.
Enemies of the People KATI MARTON 2009
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Lona: Chiefly to annoy the petticoated and trousered prudes that one met at every turn in the town.
Pillars of Society 2008
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Lona: Chiefly to annoy the petticoated and trousered prudes that one met at every turn in the town.
Pillars of Society 2008
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They were all slip-shoed; stockingless some; only under-petticoated all; their gowns, made to cover straddling hoops, hanging trollopy, and tangling about their heels; but hastily wrapt round them, as soon as I came up stairs.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Mrs. Lovick, you say, is a good woman: if the lady be worse, you shall advise her to send for a parson to pray by her: unknown to her, unknown to the lady, unknown to thee, (for so it may pass,) I will contrive to be the man, petticoated out, and vested in a gown and cassock.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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What can they think of them? what can they make of these bearded or petticoated giants who look down upon their games? who move upon a cloudy Olympus, following unknown designs apart from rational enjoyment? who profess the tenderest solicitude for children, and yet every now and again reach down out of their altitude and terribly vindicate the prerogatives of age?
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Once in the French Quarter, they jaunted by topless strip clubs and restaurants with petticoated Southern belles, past drunken college frat boys, spilling their super-size cups of beer, and around street musicians dancing with trombones.
RAINBOW road alex sanchez 2005
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