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PETTICOAT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Undergarment worn under a skirt
Synonyms:
half-slip; petticoat; underskirt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("petticoat" is a kind of...):
undergarment; unmentionable (a garment worn under other garments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "petticoat"):
crinoline (a full stiff petticoat made of crinoline fabric)
Context examples:
It required some glorified petticoat to account for that 'Love-cycle,' and that's the shame of it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
It was not until we had rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
My aunt being supremely indifferent to Mrs. Crupp's opinion and everybody else's, and rather favouring than discouraging the idea, Mrs. Crupp, of late the bold, became within a few days so faint-hearted, that rather than encounter my aunt upon the staircase, she would endeavour to hide her portly form behind doors—leaving visible, however, a wide margin of flannel petticoat—or would shrink into dark corners.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
