petticoat

Meanings

Plural: petticoats

Noun

• undergarment worn under a skirt
• A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.
• A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
• A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
• A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
• A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
• A woman.
• A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.

Verb

• To dress in a petticoat.

Adj

• Feminine; female; involving a woman.

Synonyms

half-slip, underskirt

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