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Meanings of petticoat in English
Usage of petticoat in English
1
It's just as I thought,-youare tagging after some new petticoat again.
2
The exhaust nozzle, the diaphragm and the draft pipes or petticoat pipe.
3
The peasant took the petticoat, drank it away, and said to himself:
4
The under-tunic was now becoming a petticoat and the over-tunic a dress.
5
No woman in the mountains ever had a petticoat like that, Jinny.
6
The latter was much better for the lace on a Sunday petticoat.
7
Mrs. Lessways cried out thickly from the folds of her flannel petticoat:
8
Off came the ruffled petticoat and little chemise edged with fine lace.
9
The sufferer wore nothing but a short petticoat of coarse light-blue stuff.
10
Again, we have here and there the fleeting shadow of a petticoat.
11
She had arrived as far as the flannel petticoat when Joyce returned.
12
The next day, they made a wooden petticoat and a horn comb.
13
She had on a grey cloak over a white jacket and petticoat.
14
The ankle isn't bad, but the petticoat had common lace on it.
15
Her skirt was held out with a petticoat with progressively larger hoops.
16
After this, no more of human tallow round a wick of petticoat.
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Translations for petticoat
Portuguese
Catalan
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Petticoat through the time
Petticoat across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare