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What (who) is Petticoat - definition

SKIRT-LIKE UNDERGARMENT, SOMETIMES INTENDED TO SHOW, WORN UNDER A SKIRT OR DRESS

Petticoats; Pettycoat; Petticoat government (phrase)

petticoat

¦ noun

1. a woman's light, loose undergarment in the form of a skirt or dress.

2. [as modifier] informal, often derogatory associated with women: petticoat government.

Derivatives

petticoated adjective

Origin

ME: from petty coat, lit. 'small coat': the word orig. referred to a garment worn by men under a coat or doublet.

petticoat

(petticoats)

A petticoat is a piece of clothing like a thin skirt, which is worn under a skirt or dress. (OLD-FASHIONED)

N-COUNT

Petticoat

·noun A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.

Wikipedia

Petticoat

A petticoat or underskirt is an article of clothing, a type of undergarment worn under a skirt or a dress. Its precise meaning varies over centuries and between countries.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, in current British English, a petticoat is "a light loose undergarment ... hanging from the shoulders or waist". In modern American usage, "petticoat" refers only to a garment hanging from the waist. They are most often made of cotton, silk or tulle. Without petticoats, skirts of the 1850s would not have the volume they were known for. In historical contexts (16th to mid-19th centuries), petticoat refers to any separate skirt worn with a gown, bedgown, bodice or jacket; these petticoats are not, strictly speaking, underwear, as they were made to be seen. In both historical and modern contexts, petticoat refers to skirt-like undergarments worn for warmth or to give the skirt or dress the desired attractive shape.

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Examples of use of Petticoat

1. Actress Lori Saunders ("Petticoat Junction") is 66.

2. Her petticoat is pretty though. – Betty, EX Pat I cannot stand Paris.

3. Under her black gown she wore a red bodice and petticoat – the Catholic colour of blood and of martyrdom.

4. Another bomb has gone off in Aldgate, near the famous Petticoat Lane market where I used to work as a teenager.

5. Wearing a canary yellow strapless evening gown, Jessica Jenkins walked across the remains of her home, raising her petticoat to keep it out of the red clay.