The modern Greek male costume is often called a petticoat or a tutu. From Wordnik.com. [REAL BOYS WEAR PINK TUTUS » Sociological Images] Reference
I have been setting up a thick quilted satin petticoat for this cold weather, and my eyes are not well. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
The first petticoat is trimmed with gold up the sides, which are slit open, and tied up with coloured ribbon. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
One, for example, would have a scarlet satin petticoat, and over it a pink satin robe, with scarlet ribbons to match. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
The petticoat was a piece of broadcloth with the list at the top and bottom and the ends sewed together. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison]
Her petticoat was her towel; she would have used her hair, but that she dared not lose command of herself and him. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
But there was no towel, so I used my handkerchief instead of my petticoat, which is made of chiffon and is very perishable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays] Reference
The petticoat, which is of pink satin, has a large bow of ribbon with a rose in the centre, just below the rose which fastens the dress. From Wordnik.com. [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference
You should be able to find it without too much trouble if you search on "petticoat". From Wordnik.com. [Your (New) Slip Is Showing - A Dress A Day] Reference
There were three sets of garments, each consisting of a kind of petticoat, a bodice, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference
Dyak women wear a short petticoat which is drawn tightly round the waist and reaches down to the knees. From Wordnik.com. [Children of Borneo] Reference
A petticoat is a skirt. From Wordnik.com. [Told in the Drooling Ward] Reference
This petticoat is white. From Wordnik.com. [The Wouldbegoods] Reference
I saw a few women, and I thought them ugly; they wore a kind of petticoat made of palm-leaves, or some plant like it. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
The women have a kind of petticoat made of the filaments of the plantain-tree, flags, or some such thing, which reaches below the knee. From Wordnik.com. [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference
"Miss Persis, I haven't got a petticoat that comes below my knees.". From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
"A petticoat, most likely, the rogue!" rejoined the second speaker. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
But he is under petticoat tyranny and I dread ruffling the petticoat. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
He has a fit on him now, I fancied -- he is once more possessed of a petticoat. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
This, with the antique kirtle and picturesque petticoat, is an Acadian portrait. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
It isn't well, even for a dog, to be under such petticoat government as that; it spoils him. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Saturday night and found her washin 'out her flannel petticoat and dryin' it before the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Lily just happened to want a new dress, a new petticoat and a tiny mother-of-pearl lucky charm. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
She slipped off her white petticoat, stripped it, and under his directions bandaged the arm firmly. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
It was deep wading, and the current was so rapid she had to fill her petticoat with gravel to steady herself. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
"-- That you may expect things to go pleasantly on the day you put on your petticoat the wrong side out ----". From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Unfortunate indeed is he who has not had, during his infancy, a petticoat near him -- the sweet influence of a woman. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What can be finer than the verse commencing, 'Her feet beneath her petticoat,' or that which follows: 'Her cheeks,' etc.?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Mrs. Grebby has drawn the parish magazine from the recesses of an enormous pocket in her petticoat, and hands it to her daughter. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
One young girl, wearing moccasins and a jaunty bear-skin jacket, had walked five miles to borrow a white petticoat to wear to the dance. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
"Tracadie," and again the Norman kirtle and petticoat of the pastoral, black-eyed Evangelines hove in sight, and passed like a day-dream. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
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