petticoatn.

Brit.

/ˈpɛtɪkəʊt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛdiˌkoʊt/,

/ˈpɛdəˌkoʊt/

Forms: late Middle English pettecote, late Middle English–1600s peticote, late Middle English–1600s petticote, late Middle English–1600s petycote, 1500s patecote, 1500s patecott, 1500s petcot, 1500s peteekot, 1500s peticoot, 1500s petycot, 1500s–1600s petecote, 1500s–1600s peticoat, 1500s–1600s pettecoate, 1500s–1600s pettycoate, 1500s–1600s pettycote, 1500s–1700s peticoate, 1500s– petticoat, 1600s petticoate, 1600s pettiecoat, 1600s pettiecoate, 1600s piticoat, 1600s pitticoat, 1600s–1700s pettycoat; English regional 1800s– petticut, 1800s– pettycoat, 1900s– petticooat (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 patycoit, pre-1700 peatticotte, pre-1700 peitikot, pre-1700 peitticoit, pre-1700 peittiecothe, pre-1700 peittikothe, pre-1700 petecot, pre-1700 peteyecot, pre-1700 peticoat, pre-1700 peticoate, pre-1700 peticot, pre-1700 peticott, pre-1700 pettecott, pre-1700 petticoatt, pre-1700 petticoit, pre-1700 petticoitt, pre-1700 petticot, pre-1700 pettiecote, pre-1700 pettycote, pre-1700 pettycoytht, pre-1700 petycoit, pre-1700 petycot, pre-1700 petycote, pre-1700 piticott, pre-1700 pittecoat, pre-1700 pittecoit, pre-1700 pittecot, pre-1700 pittecote, pre-1700 pittecott, pre-1700 pitticoat, pre-1700 pitticoatt, pre-1700 pitticoit, pre-1700 pittiecoatt, pre-1700 pittiecoit, pre-1700 pittiecott, pre-1700 1700s pitycoat, pre-1700 1700s– petticoat, pre-1700 (1800s historical) petticote, 1700s piticote, 1700s pitocitt (irregular). N.E.D. (1905) also records a form late Middle English pety coote.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: petty adj., coat n.

Etymology: < petty adj. + coat n. (compare coat n. 1, 2).

a. A man's tight-fitting undercoat, usually padded and worn under a doublet and over a shirt; (also) a padded jerkin worn under armour for protection. Now historical.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other

kirtlec893

viteroke?c1225

bleauntc1314

surcoata1330

paltock1353

courtepy1362

tunicle1377

gipona1387

juponc1400

petticoatc1425

wardecorpsc1440

placard1483

galbart1488

corsletc1500

truss1563

gippo1617

juste-au-corps1656

fore-belly1663

vest1666

justicoat1669

coat1670

amiculum1722

arba kanfot1738

slip1762

hap-warm1773

aba1792

Moldave1800

abaya1810

saya1811

tzitzit1816

cote-hardie1834

tobe1835

yelek1836

panties1845

cyclas1846

exomis1850

himation1850

jumper1853

blouse1861

peplum1866

exomion1875

confection1885

lammy1886

surquayne1887

bluey1888

fatigue-blouse1890

sling-jacket1900

top1902

sun top1934

sillapak1942

tank top1949

ao dai1961

tank1985

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > coat of mail or corselet

ring netOE

burnec1050

briniec1175

hauberk1297

coatc1300

bryn1330

habergeon1377

jackc1380

doublet of defence (or fence)1418

petticoatc1425

gesteron1469

byrnie1488

coat of fence1490

corset1490

corse1507

sark of mail1515

plate-coat1521

shirt of mail1522

mail-coat1535

corslet1563

costlet1578

pewter coat1584

cataphract1591

pyne doublet1600

sponge1600

coat-armour1603

brace1609

coat of arms1613

frock of mail1671

mail-shirt1816

mail-sark1838

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > short

petticoatc1425

jump1654

jump-coat1660

coatee1848

haori1877

perisher1889

British (Service) warm1901

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 55 Some þer wer eke þat nolde faille To han of maille eke a peire bras, And þer-wiþ-al, as þe custom was, A peir Gussetis on a petycote.

1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 26 j elne of skarlete for a petticote to the King..Ls.

1522 W. More Jrnl. (1914) 162 Item to John taylor for ij peticoots for Roger Knyȝth with ye makyng..4s. 2d.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. E.i^v Next your sherte vse to were a petycote of skarlet.

1642 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 228 Standing befoir the fyre with his coatt off and his petticoat.

1673 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1961) 40 60 Ane old hairstuff peticoat.

1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 181 A peti or pettite coat of red damask is mentioned as remaining amongst the apparel of Henry V., and..there can be no doubt it was but a little coat, and that the garment had no affinity to its..namesake.

1984 J. Nunn Fashion in Costume 30 Until about the early 16th century..the original doublet continued as an undergarment, called by mid-century a waistcoat or petticoat, i.e. a short coat, sleeved, often padded and worn for warmth but rarely visible except in informal half-dress.

b. English regional (now Kent). A waistcoat. Now rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > waistcoat

waistcoat1519

vest1666

petticoat1691

jacket1705

fecket1755

waistcoat-piece1789

under-waistcoat1794

vest-slip1920

1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 109 A Petticoat; is in some places used for a Mans Wastcoat.

1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) Gloss. Petty-coat, a man or boy's waistcoat.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 116 Pettycoat, a man's waistcoat.

2. A woman's or girl's garment.

a. A woman's undercoat or under-tunic, analogous to the male petticoat (see 1a), often padded and worn showing beneath an open gown. Now historical.Later developing into the decorated underskirt at 2b, to which sense some of the following quots. may belong.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > worn beneath woman's gown

petticoat1464

waistcoat1547

1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 544 (MED) Item, for makenge of ij petycotes fore mastres Marget and m. Anne, iiij d.

1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 22 To Robert Ragdale for making of a peticote of scarlet for the Quene viij d.

1520 R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour (1880) I. App. A. 312 Every of their wifes a white petycote.

1558 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 309 For the wrangous reiffing and away taking fra hir of ane plyd, ane petticoitt [etc.].

1969 R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 267/2 In the fourteenth century the ‘petticote’ was an undercoat worn by both sexes... The female version was worn under an open gown.

1986 G. O'Hara Encycl. Fashion 195 A petticoat was originally a man's undershirt. By the Middle Ages it had become a woman's garment resembling a padded waistcoat or undercoat.

b. A skirt, as distinguished from a bodice, worn either externally or showing beneath a dress as part of the costume (often trimmed or ornamented); an outer skirt; a decorative underskirt. Frequently in plural: a woman's or girl's upper skirts and underskirts collectively. Now archaic or historical.The usual sense between the 17th and 19th centuries.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt

gorea1250

coat1393

skirta1400

placket1547

vasquine1553

petticoata1586

vascay1609

jupe1825

jupon1851

skirty1922

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. f. 248 Sixe maides, all in one liuerie of skarlette petticotes, which were tuckt vp almoste to their knees.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F^v The fringe of your sattin peticote is ript.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 15 They are but burs,..if we walke not in the trodden paths our very petty-coates will catch them.

1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 78 He commanded also that all women..shold tuck their petticoats somwhat high.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 18 May (1970) III. 85 She was in her new suit of black Sarcenet and yellow petticoat, very pretty.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 145. ⁋7 There is not one of us but has reduced our outward Petticoat to its ancient Sizable Circumference, tho' indeed we retain still a Quilted one underneath.

1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 288 A Mouse..to shelter under Dolly's Petticoats.

1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville II. 37 The handsomest of the country girls, in white jackets and petticoats, garlands of flowers..on their heads.

1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris viii. 136 Their boddices contrasted against their petticoats with the judgment of a painter.

1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 85 The country was chalky, and whitened the hems of her petticoats.

1898 Cycling: Handbk. xii. 72 Petticoats, which only hamper the action of the knees, must absolutely be discarded.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xciv. 497 She lay with her head thrown back and her mouth slightly open; her legs were stretched out, and her boots protruded from her petticoats in a grotesque fashion.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. iv. xxiv. 336 A woman with a red petticoat flapping about her bare calves came and placed a small wooden table before them.

1993 Beaver June 45/2 She can let go, wipe her sweaty and slippery palms on her petticoats and catch the handle on the upstroke with no loss of rhythm.

c. A light loose undergarment (originally of calico, flannel, silk, etc.; now frequently of synthetic material) hanging from the shoulders or waist, and worn by a woman or girl under a dress or skirt for warmth, etc. (Now the usual sense.)In early quots. not easily separable from senses 2a, 2b.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt

wyliecoat1544

petticoata1616

under-petticoat1625

undercoat1740

dicky1753

slip1825

under-skirt1861

skirt1862

foundation1893

blouse slip1907

petti1915

skirty1922

slip-dress1964

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 5 But for these other goods, Vnbinde my hands, Ile pull them off my selfe, Yea all my raiment, to my petticoate .

1625 J. Mede Let. 8 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 201 She came out of her bedchamber in her petticoat.

1662 S. Pepys Diary 21 May (1970) III. 87 Saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaynes.

1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. iv. 208 The Moment she is out of Bed, she runs with her Stays and Petticoats into the next Neighbour's Chamber, not being able to live without Company.

1812 Poet. Sketches Scarborough (ed. 2) 138 While Kate was like a crouching goddess, In only petticoat and boddice.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 10 I said, jokingly, that when I went to bed I should wrap my head up in Fanny's flannel petticoat.

1861 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 3 118/2 Stiff muslin petticoats..are very suitable for wearing with..unlined silk dresses.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxiv. 156 She had taken off her skirt and blouse, and was standing in her petticoat.

1935 E. Glasgow Vein of Iron (1936) i. i. 12 She hoped the minister couldn't see the top of her red flannel underbody, which would poke up at the neck, though it was sewed to her petticoat.

1992 B. Morgan Random Passage xiv. 194 They see a flutter of black and white as she hoists her skirt and pulls off her petticoat.

d. A similar or analogous garment worn in Africa, Asia, etc., or in the ancient world. Now rare.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > other

bases1562

petticoat1661

petticoatie1796

basquine1819

gypsy skirt1871

divided skirt1885

lava-lava1891

saya1899

three-decker1909

harem skirt1910

lappa1954

skort1957

puffball1959

swirl skirt1962

longuette1970

1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 10 Those who sacrific'd to Ceres put on the pettycoat with much confidence.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 156 Over their Lower Parts a Pitticoat or Lungy, their Feet and Legs without Stockins.

a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 41 Our good Grandmother Eve might have sav'd her self a great deal of trouble in tacking together her Primitive Green Petticoat and Wastcoat.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 336 The Women have short Petticoats made of Silk Grass.

1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 165 The women have a kind of fringe petticoats, made of filaments or tassels of the white cedar bark.

1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. 96 The women wore skin petticoats..consisting of a prepared sheep or goat skin, so arranged, as to depend from the waist in a broad oval flap behind, and in front to be only a few inches in depth.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 23 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) ii. 101 A statue of Minerva with a petticoat of red porphyry.

1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry i. 14 They made petticoats of tule and other wild grasses for summer use, and winter garments of rabbit and squirrel skins.

1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. 115 Although the women now wear the Arab robe it is scarcely more than fifty years since their customary garment was a short petticoat reaching to the knees.

†e. The skirt of a woman's riding habit. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > for riding > parts of

petticoat1663

strap1883

1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 July (1971) IV. 229 The..Queene..in..a white laced waistcoat and a crimson short petty-coate,..mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 12 June (1972) VII. 162 The Ladies of Honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets.., with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women.

1691 London Gaz. No. 2657/4 Sarah Potter,..having a striped Gown and Petticoat, and a grey Riding-hood.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. 2/1 The Model of this Amazonian Hunting-Habit for Ladies..sits awkardly [sic] yet on our English Modesty. The Petticoat is a kind of Incumbrance upon it.

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. ix. 207 A skirt, or upper-petticote, of camlet, like those worn [in 18th cent.] by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback.

3. figurative. Cf. Compounds 2.

a. The article of clothing viewed as the characteristic or typical feminine garment and hence as a symbol or metaphor for the female sex or feminine attributes. to wear (also be in) petticoats: to be a woman, to behave like a woman. In later use, frequently in a (specified male) in petticoats: a female counterpart to the man referred to. Usually in plural. Now archaic.

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the world > people > person > woman > be or become woman [verb (intransitive)]

to wear (also be in) petticoats1595

woman1613

feminize1776

1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 23 That you might still haue kept your Peticote, and nere haue stolne the Breech from Lancaster.

1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. iv. xxxviii, in Playes Written 450 Lord, Lord, this nasty love, or rather this beastly lust..breaks peace and makes warrs, and turns arms into petticoats.

1675 Char. Town-gallant 7 There are no Angels but those in Petticoats.

a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 451 It is a great compliment methinks to the sex,..that your Virtues are generally shown in petticoats.

1766 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2733 Ignorance is only pardonable in petticoats.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 297 Since she wears a petticoat..I will answer for her protection as well as a single man may.

1853 C. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 575 Beatrice Cenci is really none other than Percy Bysshe Shelley himself in petticoats.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 She was a sort of Wesley in petticoats.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vi. 158 She remained a perfect woman..and not as some of them do become—a sort of slippery, pestilential old man in petticoats.

1980 E. Jong Fanny i. xiii. 102 Thus the Sexes will bear out each other's Myths about each other, and e'en those who wish to escape the Pow'r of these Foolish Conventions will find themselves acting as their Breeches or their Petticoats dictate.

b. By metonymy: the wearer of a petticoat; a woman or girl. Frequently derogatory. Now usually attributive, esp. in petticoat government n.

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the world > people > person > woman > [noun]

wifeeOE

womaneOE

womanOE

queanOE

brideOE

viragoc1000

to wifeOE

burdc1225

ladyc1225

carlinec1375

stotc1386

marec1387

pigsneyc1390

fellowa1393

piecec1400

femalea1425

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fairc1450

womankindc1450

fellowessa1500

femininea1513

tega1529

sister?1532

minikinc1540

wyec1540

placket1547

pig's eye1553

hen?1555

ware1558

pussy?a1560

jade1560

feme1566

gentlewoman1567

mort1567

pinnacea1568

jug1569

rowen1575

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mumps1576

skirt1578

piga1586

rib?1590

puppy1592

smock1592

maness1594

sloy1596

Madonna1602

moll1604

periwinkle1604

Partlet1607

rib of man1609

womanship?1609

modicum1611

Gypsy1612

petticoata1616

runniona1616

birda1627

lucky1629

she-man1640

her1646

lost rib1647

uptails1671

cow1696

tittup1696

cummer17..

wife1702

she-woman1703

person1704

molly1706

fusby1707

goody1708

riding hood1718

birdie1720

faggot1722

piece of goods1727

woman body1771

she-male1776

biddy1785

bitch1785

covess1789

gin1790

pintail1792

buer1807

femme1814

bibi1816

Judy1819

a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823

wifie1823

craft1829

shickster?1834

heifer1835

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tit1837

Sitt1838

strap1842

hay-bag1851

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Dona1874

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dame1902

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Tom1906

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bit of stuff1909

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broad1914

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number1919

rossie1922

bit1923

man's woman1928

scupper1935

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leg1939

skinny1941

Richard1950

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scow1960

wimmin1975

womyn1975

womxn1991

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 7 But I must comfort the weaker vessell, as doublet and hose ought to show it selfe coragious to petty-coate .

a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 118 The Maistre de Hostell still keeps his state with the better sort of petticoats.

1685 in A. Behn et al. Misc. 274 The Petticoat did make this wond'rous Man, For all his Wisdom, put the Fools-coat on.

1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v Vain is the task to petticoats assign'd, If wanton language shews a naked mind.

1776 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 155 Rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope [etc.].

a1830 R. P. Smith Last Man in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIII. 157 Because it is the village fête, I shall be obliged to dance with every petticoat present.

1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. II. v. 70 Must give up business to-day. Can't do business with a petticoat in the room.

1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. ii. 194 To think that the same petticoats should come between two of my boys!

1922 H. Titus Timber i. 14 Do you list that with your references? Your luck with these flossy young petticoats?

a. Any garment worn by a man which resembles a skirt, e.g. a kilt, a fustanella. Also: the skirts of a clergyman's or scholar's gown (usually depreciative).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > kilt

filibeg1746

kilt1746

petticoat1754

Highland kilt1803

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > fustanella

fustanella1849

petticoat1910

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. vi. 113 His Cassock would serve for Petticoats; and that he would himself be his Partner. ]

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxii. 185 Those among them who travel on Foot..vary it [sc. the Trowze] into the Quelt..a small Part of the Plaid..is set in Folds and girt round the Waste to make of it a short Petticoat that reaches half Way down the Thigh.

1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxii. 189 That they [sc. Highlanders] would not be so free to skip over the Rocks and Bogs with Breeches, as they are in the short Petticoat.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 232 The short kilt, or petticoat, showed his sinewy and clean-made limbs.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xiii. 34 Artists and actors represented Bruce and Douglas in striped petticoats.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour viii. 147 Thus was formed a species of kilt of armour, or iron petticoat.

1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. Finale 361 In the East the men too wore petticoats.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 484/2 Its [sc. Tosk costume's] distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 557 Raises high behind the celebrant's petticoats, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks.

†b. spec. A wide outer garment of oilskins or rough canvas, reaching below the knee and often undivided, worn by sailors or fishermen. Cf. petticoat trousers n. at Compounds 3. Obsolete.

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futah1738

petticoat trousers1749

pareu1769

sisi1810

petticoat1814

grass skirt1875

tub-skirt1909

piupiu1938

cuddle skirt1958

1814 J. B. Scott Diary 6 Sept. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) iii. 69 The latter were sailors from the Morea, habited in a kind of short petticoat tied at the knees.

1837 J. F. Cooper Recoll. Europe I. 38 The Channel waterman wore the short dowlas petticoat.

1887 W. Besant World Went x. 84 He wore a common sailor's petticoat or slop.

5. In plural. Skirts worn by children, including young boys. Chiefly in in petticoats: wearing an infant's petticoats; (of a boy) very young, not old enough for trousers or breeches. Now archaic and historical.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of

petticoats1781

machicote1791

ghaghraa1836

lehnga1880

1781 J. Byng Diary 8 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 55 We had been invited to hear an infant in petticoats play tunes upon the violin.

1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xiv. 183 The old woman..executed her parental authority as if he were still in petticoats.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 253 I have known him ever since he was in petticoats.

1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Bentham, Jeremy There is a story that when in petticoats he was found seated at a reading-desk..absorbed in the study of a folio copy of Rapin's ‘History of England’.

1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xvii. 130 She..pinned over her head a piece of soft flannel that had been one of Thor's long petticoats when he was a baby.

1979 Bull. Yorks. Dial. Soc. Summer 21 Ah was onnly i petticooats, so ah mun onnly a bin aboot three or fooar.

1992 C. Harvey Legacy of Love (BNC) 210 I am extremely tired and I fear I'm not as patient as I should be, poor little creatures, and the baby still in his petticoats.

6. Extended uses.

a. Railways. In full petticoat pipe. A bell-mouthed or tapering pipe (sometimes one of a number) fitted between the blastpipe and the chimney of a steam locomotive, into which the exhaust steam enters and which serves to strengthen and equalize the draught through the boiler tubes.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > chimney of > part of

bonnet1846

petticoat pipe1858

sparker1864

1858 Sci. Amer. 16 Oct. 42/4 I claim the combination of the petticoat pipe, the surrounding wire net work and the smoke pipe, whereby [etc.].

1878 Engineer 46 57/3 A good modification of the well-known American petticoat pipe.

1988 D. Huntriss LMS Pacifics 14 The locomotive's petticoat had become detached and dropped on top of the blast pipe, causing a very serious blowback in the cab.

1991 Model Railways Mar. 150/3 Inside the smokebox..were two sets of petticoat and blast pipes.

2000 P. W. B. Semmens & A. J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives really Work iii. 79 A blower consists of a ring of holes, either in a tube surrounding the blastpipe, or in the petticoat, which discharge jets of steam up the chimney.

†b. Archery. The outer non-scoring circle of an archery target. Obsolete. rare.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target > parts of

pin1584

gold1798

eye1818

blue1830

bull's-eye1833

garland1847

petticoat1864

bull1900

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Petticoat, the outer space or surface of a target. [Eng.]

1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 378/2 Petticoat, or Spoon, the ground of the target beyond the white.

c. A usually ruffled floor-length cover or fringe for a dressing table, etc. Cf. petticoated adj. 2a.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > cover for furniture > for dressing table

toilet1665

toilet cover1772

petticoat1880

1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xii. 230 The dressing-table had a pink petticoat with gauze over it.

1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. iv. 38 The mahogany dressing-table had acquired a muslin petticoat.

d. A part of an insulator in the shape of a cup or umbrella, surrounding the end of a telegraph wire or other conductor in order to protect it from rain or damp. Cf. petticoat insulator n. at Compounds 3. Now rare.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Petticoat,..the depending skirt or inverted cup-shaped part of an insulator for supporting telegraph-lines, the function of which is to protect the stem from rain.

1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 391/2 Shed of insulator, the petticoat of a line wire insulator.

1926 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 111 620 The leading-in insulator was in the form of a tall ebonite tube with three drying petticoats.

2004 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 15 Feb. (People section) The insulators in Hill's collection start at 1871 and run through 1930... The functional pieces of glass art have names like Chicago diamond, gingerbread man, petticoat, Mickey Mouse, beehive and teapot.

†e. A sheeting hung round a yacht to conceal its design during launching. Obsolete. rare.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > sheeting round yacht being launched

petticoat1899

1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 7/2 Shamrock is to be launched ‘in petticoats’ on Monday.

1899 Daily News 27 June 7/3 A long curtain or ‘petticoat’ hung over the stern of the boat, and, reaching to the ground, effectually prevented any view of the keel and lower part of the yacht.

f. A flared projection forming the foot of a tankard. rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes > foot of

gripe-foot1451

petticoat1903

1903 P. Macquoid in Burlington Mag. Apr. 173/2 In about 1640..the tankard becomes plain and high with a so-called petticoat shooting out at the bottom.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

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1587 Acct. Bk. in Antiquary 32 118 vj yeardes of petecote lace, xviijd.

1789 E. Rigby Let. 24 July in Dr. Rigby's Lett. (1880) 109 The riding-habit was divided in the petticoat past.

1814 J. Knox Let. in A. E. Blake Mem. Vanished Generation (1909) i. 18 Mine had no pattern over, but a border of silver roses round the petticoat train and draperies.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 663/1 I would warrant every knave of them to kiss the hem of the petticoat-tail of the smallest member of the sacred conclave.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Sept. 6/2 A petticoated generation could never do the full work of a generation whose limbs were free of petticoat encumbrance.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 276 A petticoat string dangled to the floor.

1979 C. Wood James Bond & Moonraker xi. 112 She had big puffed sleeves..and a petticoat effect of over-lapping polka-dotted skirts.

2001 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Nov. 29 Three miners' wives stitched it together from petticoat material and woollen scraps.

C2. attributive in metonymical use (cf. sense 3).

a. With sense ‘that is a woman; female; womanish’. Now somewhat archaic.

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1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iv. i Oh thou pernicious Petticoat Prince, are these your vertues? Well, if I do not lay a train to blow your sport up, I am no woman.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. vi. 85 The ignorant Empiricke, the peticoate or woman-physitian.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 10 Many a Heccatomb of humble Prayers, does he offer to appease this Petticoat-Deity.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶4 A Seminary of Petticoat Politicians, who are to be brought up at the Feet of Madam de Maintenon.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 213 To ridicule the petticoat pedant.

1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. App. 100 A Petticoat Pope in the Ninth Century.

1837 Gambler's Dream I. 269 The petticoat puzzletext curtsied to her young master and retired.

1913 J. Brandt (title) Petticoat Commando.

1988 R. E. Gordon (title) Petticoat pioneers. Women of distinction.

2000 Early Amer. Lit. (Nexis) 35 187 A metaphoric rebellion against the monarchic wife, the domestic, colonial, petticoat governor.

b. With sense ‘of or relating to a woman or women; feminine’.

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1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 30 The Petticoat Sex.

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon i. i. 1 Venus may know more than both of us, For 'tis some Petticoat Affair.

1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville II. 112 I am seldom at a loss to explore the source of petticoat-politics.

1792 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 914 Not even Petticoat influence shall prevail!

1806 in Francis Lett. (1901) II. 638 I will not go to Petticoat Parties.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 297 He will obey you in making a weapon, or in welding one, but he knows nothing of this petticoat service.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vi. 63 The coarsest allusions to petticoat influence.

1901 Westm. Gaz. 23 May 4/2 Miss Gertrude Elliott has the only petticoat part [in a play].

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 549 It's not a question of petticoat rule..the modern young woman is not going to spend her life managing some little husband.

1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 18/8 The occasion is the Petticoat Derby—the wives and girlfriends of the Liverpool players against their counterparts from Goodison.

2003 Brentwood Gaz. (Nexis) 13 Aug. 9 She..has been..for the last two years at the sharp end of petticoat power.

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petticoat bodice n. rare = petticoat body n.

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1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in Little Rev. June 40 A plump..arm shone, was seen, held forth from a white petticoatbodice.

† petticoat body n. Obsolete a usually sleeveless bodice attached to or worn with a petticoat.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice

waistcoat1580

petticoat body1585

bodicea1625

jump1666

jacket bodice1856

camisole1866

spencer1881

bust bodice1889

liberty bodice1892

petticoat bodice1919

cami1995

1585 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 155/1 Two payer of petycoate bodies of satten lyned with sarceonett.

1605 P. Erondelle French Garden sig. D8^v Bring my petty-coate bodyes: I meane my damask quilt bodies with whale bones.

1862 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 4 238/2 Patterns of the newest and most fashionable under-linen, including..petticoat band, petticoat body.

1891 F. Marryat There is no Death xii. 116 She had not got on ‘Rosie's’ petticoat body.

petticoat breeches n. now historical loose wide breeches with legs resembling skirts, spec. those fashionable during the early reign of Charles II.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > wide or loose

slops1481

slopper1549

gally breeches1567

gally hose1567

gaskin breeches1573

gaskins1573

galligaskin1577

galligaskin breeches1577

galligaskin1592

slivings1601

gregs1611

petticoat breeches1658

Rhinegrave1667

bushel-breeches1834

romper1922

1658 R. Holme Notebk. (modernized text) in F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (1885) 255 Short-waisted doublet and petticoat-breeches, the lining lower than the breeches tied above the knee.

1775 J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan II. 101 Here we see the open sleeve and the short-waisted doublet, with the petticoat breeches.

1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (1885) Gloss. at Breeches Towards the end of the reign of Charles the petticoat-breeches were discarded.

1997 Independent (Nexis) 7 June (Books section) 7 I find it quite possible to imagine, say, Tony Blair rigged out in the petticoat breeches of his Parliamentary predecessors 300 years ago.

petticoat discipline n. (in sadomasochism) the humiliation of a male submissive by a (usually female) dominant in which the submissive is dressed in women's lingerie and made to endure various degrading actions.

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1912 in P. Farrar Confid. Corr. on Cross-dressing (1997) 21 The novel punishment of petticoat discipline is a most fascinating subject, and one that I, as a former victim, never tire of reading about.

1987 Women in Command in T. E. Murray & T. R. Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism 105 Total Petticoat discipline when mistress punishes her pantywaist sissy!

2003 Femdom Story—Harold in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Aug. Her two younger brothers were subjected to strict petticoat discipline.

petticoat insulator n. now rare an insulator incorporating one or more petticoats (sense 6d).

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1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Petticoat insulator.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 631/2 Petticoat insulator, a pin-type insulator equipped with one or more petticoats.

petticoat maker n. now rare a maker of petticoats; (formerly) spec. †a maker of farthingales (obsolete).

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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Peticote maker, indusiarius.

1783 R. Ainsworth Thes. Ling. Lat. Compend. A pettycoat maker, indusiorum, muliebrium opisex.

1881 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 675/2 They are evidently only a petticoat-maker's second thought.

1995 Daily Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 4 June She fluttered the hearts of petticoat makers, lace salesmen and net weavers.

† petticoat-monger n. Obsolete a whoremonger; = pimp n.¹ 1a.

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1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. I2 You pickt-hatch Caualiero petticote-monger.

† petticoat-pensioner n. cant Obsolete a man paid by a woman, a woman's fancy man.

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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > woman's hired lover

stallion1676

petticoat-pensioner1699

gigolo1922

Valentino1927

toyboy1981

boy toy1982

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pettycoat-Pensioner, a Gallant, or one Maintain'd for secret Service.

1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool I. 142 What, you Pimp, do you want to turn Petticoat Pensioner.

1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. IV. 327/1 He became a petticoat-pensioner.

petticoat pipe n. see sense 6a.

petticoat trousers n. now rare †(a) U.S. colloquial, (in New England) a name for wide baggy trousers (cf. petticoat breeches n.) (obsolete); (b) = sense 4b; (c) applied to the wide-legged trousers worn by women of various Asian and Middle Eastern cultures.

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futah1738

petticoat trousers1749

pareu1769

sisi1810

petticoat1814

grass skirt1875

tub-skirt1909

piupiu1938

cuddle skirt1958

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose

slops1481

shipman's hose1540

slop1560

shipman's breek1563

drawers1567

kelsouns1568

scaling1577

scavilones1577

scabilonian1600

calzoons1615

linings1631

swabber-slopsa1658

pantaloon1686

underslops1737

trousers1773

pyjamas1801

Cossacks1820

Turkish trousers1821

hakama1822

salwar1824

slacks1824

sherwal1844

overall1845

bag1853

sack-pants1856

bloomer1862

trouser skirt1883

petticoat trousers1885

mompe1908

step-in1922

bombachas1936

baggies1962

jams1966

palazzo1970

hose-

1749 N.-Y. Gaz. Revived in Weekly Post-boy 11 Sept. 3/2 Had on when he went away..Oznabrigs Shirt, petticoat Trowsers, yarn Stockings.

1753 in New Jersey Archives (1897) 19 291 He took with him..two Pair of Petticoat Trowsers.

1854 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 4 Nov. 267/1 They [sc. the fishermen] encase themselves in..wonderful overalls and petticoat trowsers, made to all appearance of tarry old sails.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma 60 Monsieur arrayed in the foraging cap, the little coatee, the petticoat trowsers..of his long adopted country.

1881 Harper's Mag. Jan. 190/1 One day two sailors, dressed in petticoat trousers..arrested the attention of a young girl.

1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. II. xxxiv. 6 The strings of her petticoat-trousers.

1939 Times 26 July 12/2 The sailor in petticoat trousers.

2001 Man from Orgy 4 in alt.sex.stories (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Nov. She went on to explain to me the complexities of the sirwal, or petticoat trousers frequently worn by Arab women.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	petticoat
释义	petticoatn. Brit. /ˈpɛtɪkəʊt/, U.S. /ˈpɛdiˌkoʊt/, /ˈpɛdəˌkoʊt/ Forms: late Middle English pettecote, late Middle English–1600s peticote, late Middle English–1600s petticote, late Middle English–1600s petycote, 1500s patecote, 1500s patecott, 1500s petcot, 1500s peteekot, 1500s peticoot, 1500s petycot, 1500s–1600s petecote, 1500s–1600s peticoat, 1500s–1600s pettecoate, 1500s–1600s pettycoate, 1500s–1600s pettycote, 1500s–1700s peticoate, 1500s– petticoat, 1600s petticoate, 1600s pettiecoat, 1600s pettiecoate, 1600s piticoat, 1600s pitticoat, 1600s–1700s pettycoat; English regional 1800s– petticut, 1800s– pettycoat, 1900s– petticooat (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 patycoit, pre-1700 peatticotte, pre-1700 peitikot, pre-1700 peitticoit, pre-1700 peittiecothe, pre-1700 peittikothe, pre-1700 petecot, pre-1700 peteyecot, pre-1700 peticoat, pre-1700 peticoate, pre-1700 peticot, pre-1700 peticott, pre-1700 pettecott, pre-1700 petticoatt, pre-1700 petticoit, pre-1700 petticoitt, pre-1700 petticot, pre-1700 pettiecote, pre-1700 pettycote, pre-1700 pettycoytht, pre-1700 petycoit, pre-1700 petycot, pre-1700 petycote, pre-1700 piticott, pre-1700 pittecoat, pre-1700 pittecoit, pre-1700 pittecot, pre-1700 pittecote, pre-1700 pittecott, pre-1700 pitticoat, pre-1700 pitticoatt, pre-1700 pitticoit, pre-1700 pittiecoatt, pre-1700 pittiecoit, pre-1700 pittiecott, pre-1700 1700s pitycoat, pre-1700 1700s– petticoat, pre-1700 (1800s historical) petticote, 1700s piticote, 1700s pitocitt (irregular). N.E.D. (1905) also records a form late Middle English pety coote. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: petty adj., coat n. Etymology: < petty adj. + coat n. (compare coat n. 1, 2). 1. a. A man's tight-fitting undercoat, usually padded and worn under a doublet and over a shirt; (also) a padded jerkin worn under armour for protection. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > other kirtlec893 viteroke?c1225 bleauntc1314 surcoata1330 paltock1353 courtepy1362 tunicle1377 gipona1387 juponc1400 petticoatc1425 wardecorpsc1440 placard1483 galbart1488 corsletc1500 truss1563 gippo1617 juste-au-corps1656 fore-belly1663 vest1666 justicoat1669 coat1670 amiculum1722 arba kanfot1738 slip1762 hap-warm1773 aba1792 Moldave1800 abaya1810 saya1811 tzitzit1816 cote-hardie1834 tobe1835 yelek1836 panties1845 cyclas1846 exomis1850 himation1850 jumper1853 blouse1861 peplum1866 exomion1875 confection1885 lammy1886 surquayne1887 bluey1888 fatigue-blouse1890 sling-jacket1900 top1902 sun top1934 sillapak1942 tank top1949 ao dai1961 tank1985 society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > coat of mail or corselet ring netOE burnec1050 briniec1175 hauberk1297 coatc1300 bryn1330 habergeon1377 jackc1380 doublet of defence (or fence)1418 petticoatc1425 gesteron1469 byrnie1488 coat of fence1490 corset1490 corse1507 sark of mail1515 plate-coat1521 shirt of mail1522 mail-coat1535 corslet1563 costlet1578 pewter coat1584 cataphract1591 pyne doublet1600 sponge1600 coat-armour1603 brace1609 coat of arms1613 frock of mail1671 mail-shirt1816 mail-sark1838 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > types of > short petticoatc1425 jump1654 jump-coat1660 coatee1848 haori1877 perisher1889 British (Service) warm1901 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 55 Some þer wer eke þat nolde faille To han of maille eke a peire bras, And þer-wiþ-al, as þe custom was, A peir Gussetis on a petycote. 1474 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 26 j elne of skarlete for a petticote to the King..Ls. 1522 W. More Jrnl. (1914) 162 Item to John taylor for ij peticoots for Roger Knyȝth with ye makyng..4s. 2d. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth viii. sig. E.i^v Next your sherte vse to were a petycote of skarlet. 1642 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 228 Standing befoir the fyre with his coatt off and his petticoat. 1673 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1961) 40 60 Ane old hairstuff peticoat. 1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 181 A peti or pettite coat of red damask is mentioned as remaining amongst the apparel of Henry V., and..there can be no doubt it was but a little coat, and that the garment had no affinity to its..namesake. 1984 J. Nunn Fashion in Costume 30 Until about the early 16th century..the original doublet continued as an undergarment, called by mid-century a waistcoat or petticoat, i.e. a short coat, sleeved, often padded and worn for warmth but rarely visible except in informal half-dress. b. English regional (now Kent). A waistcoat. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > waistcoat waistcoat1519 vest1666 petticoat1691 jacket1705 fecket1755 waistcoat-piece1789 under-waistcoat1794 vest-slip1920 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 109 A Petticoat; is in some places used for a Mans Wastcoat. 1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) Gloss. Petty-coat, a man or boy's waistcoat. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 116 Pettycoat, a man's waistcoat. 2. A woman's or girl's garment. a. A woman's undercoat or under-tunic, analogous to the male petticoat (see 1a), often padded and worn showing beneath an open gown. Now historical.Later developing into the decorated underskirt at 2b, to which sense some of the following quots. may belong. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > worn beneath woman's gown petticoat1464 waistcoat1547 1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 544 (MED) Item, for makenge of ij petycotes fore mastres Marget and m. Anne, iiij d. 1502 in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 22 To Robert Ragdale for making of a peticote of scarlet for the Quene viij d. 1520 R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour (1880) I. App. A. 312 Every of their wifes a white petycote. 1558 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 309 For the wrangous reiffing and away taking fra hir of ane plyd, ane petticoitt [etc.]. 1969 R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume 267/2 In the fourteenth century the ‘petticote’ was an undercoat worn by both sexes... The female version was worn under an open gown. 1986 G. O'Hara Encycl. Fashion 195 A petticoat was originally a man's undershirt. By the Middle Ages it had become a woman's garment resembling a padded waistcoat or undercoat. b. A skirt, as distinguished from a bodice, worn either externally or showing beneath a dress as part of the costume (often trimmed or ornamented); an outer skirt; a decorative underskirt. Frequently in plural: a woman's or girl's upper skirts and underskirts collectively. Now archaic or historical.The usual sense between the 17th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt gorea1250 coat1393 skirta1400 placket1547 vasquine1553 petticoata1586 vascay1609 jupe1825 jupon1851 skirty1922 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. f. 248 Sixe maides, all in one liuerie of skarlette petticotes, which were tuckt vp almoste to their knees. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F^v The fringe of your sattin peticote is ript. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 15 They are but burs,..if we walke not in the trodden paths our very petty-coates will catch them. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Hist. Revol. Naples (1664) i. 78 He commanded also that all women..shold tuck their petticoats somwhat high. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 18 May (1970) III. 85 She was in her new suit of black Sarcenet and yellow petticoat, very pretty. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 145. ⁋7 There is not one of us but has reduced our outward Petticoat to its ancient Sizable Circumference, tho' indeed we retain still a Quilted one underneath. 1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 288 A Mouse..to shelter under Dolly's Petticoats. 1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville II. 37 The handsomest of the country girls, in white jackets and petticoats, garlands of flowers..on their heads. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris viii. 136 Their boddices contrasted against their petticoats with the judgment of a painter. 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages iii. 85 The country was chalky, and whitened the hems of her petticoats. 1898 Cycling: Handbk. xii. 72 Petticoats, which only hamper the action of the knees, must absolutely be discarded. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xciv. 497 She lay with her head thrown back and her mouth slightly open; her legs were stretched out, and her boots protruded from her petticoats in a grotesque fashion. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse II. iv. xxiv. 336 A woman with a red petticoat flapping about her bare calves came and placed a small wooden table before them. 1993 Beaver June 45/2 She can let go, wipe her sweaty and slippery palms on her petticoats and catch the handle on the upstroke with no loss of rhythm. c. A light loose undergarment (originally of calico, flannel, silk, etc.; now frequently of synthetic material) hanging from the shoulders or waist, and worn by a woman or girl under a dress or skirt for warmth, etc. (Now the usual sense.)In early quots. not easily separable from senses 2a, 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > underskirt wyliecoat1544 petticoata1616 under-petticoat1625 undercoat1740 dicky1753 slip1825 under-skirt1861 skirt1862 foundation1893 blouse slip1907 petti1915 skirty1922 slip-dress1964 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 5 But for these other goods, Vnbinde my hands, Ile pull them off my selfe, Yea all my raiment, to my petticoate . View more context for this quotation 1625 J. Mede Let. 8 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 201 She came out of her bedchamber in her petticoat. 1662 S. Pepys Diary 21 May (1970) III. 87 Saw the finest smocks and linen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaynes. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. iv. 208 The Moment she is out of Bed, she runs with her Stays and Petticoats into the next Neighbour's Chamber, not being able to live without Company. 1812 Poet. Sketches Scarborough (ed. 2) 138 While Kate was like a crouching goddess, In only petticoat and boddice. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 10 I said, jokingly, that when I went to bed I should wrap my head up in Fanny's flannel petticoat. 1861 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 3 118/2 Stiff muslin petticoats..are very suitable for wearing with..unlined silk dresses. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxiv. 156 She had taken off her skirt and blouse, and was standing in her petticoat. 1935 E. Glasgow Vein of Iron (1936) i. i. 12 She hoped the minister couldn't see the top of her red flannel underbody, which would poke up at the neck, though it was sewed to her petticoat. 1992 B. Morgan Random Passage xiv. 194 They see a flutter of black and white as she hoists her skirt and pulls off her petticoat. d. A similar or analogous garment worn in Africa, Asia, etc., or in the ancient world. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > other bases1562 petticoat1661 petticoatie1796 basquine1819 gypsy skirt1871 divided skirt1885 lava-lava1891 saya1899 three-decker1909 harem skirt1910 lappa1954 skort1957 puffball1959 swirl skirt1962 longuette1970 1661 J. Evelyn Tyrannus 10 Those who sacrific'd to Ceres put on the pettycoat with much confidence. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 156 Over their Lower Parts a Pitticoat or Lungy, their Feet and Legs without Stockins. a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 41 Our good Grandmother Eve might have sav'd her self a great deal of trouble in tacking together her Primitive Green Petticoat and Wastcoat. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 336 The Women have short Petticoats made of Silk Grass. 1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 165 The women have a kind of fringe petticoats, made of filaments or tassels of the white cedar bark. 1838 J. E. Alexander Exped. Discov. Interior Afr. I. 96 The women wore skin petticoats..consisting of a prepared sheep or goat skin, so arranged, as to depend from the waist in a broad oval flap behind, and in front to be only a few inches in depth. 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 23 Feb. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) ii. 101 A statue of Minerva with a petticoat of red porphyry. 1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry i. 14 They made petticoats of tule and other wild grasses for summer use, and winter garments of rabbit and squirrel skins. 1930 C. G. Seligman Races of Afr. 115 Although the women now wear the Arab robe it is scarcely more than fifty years since their customary garment was a short petticoat reaching to the knees. †e. The skirt of a woman's riding habit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > for women > for riding > parts of petticoat1663 strap1883 1663 S. Pepys Diary 13 July (1971) IV. 229 The..Queene..in..a white laced waistcoat and a crimson short petty-coate,..mighty pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 12 June (1972) VII. 162 The Ladies of Honour dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets.., with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women. 1691 London Gaz. No. 2657/4 Sarah Potter,..having a striped Gown and Petticoat, and a grey Riding-hood. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 104. 2/1 The Model of this Amazonian Hunting-Habit for Ladies..sits awkardly [sic] yet on our English Modesty. The Petticoat is a kind of Incumbrance upon it. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. ix. 207 A skirt, or upper-petticote, of camlet, like those worn [in 18th cent.] by country ladies of moderate rank when on horseback. 3. figurative. Cf. Compounds 2. a. The article of clothing viewed as the characteristic or typical feminine garment and hence as a symbol or metaphor for the female sex or feminine attributes. to wear (also be in) petticoats: to be a woman, to behave like a woman. In later use, frequently in a (specified male) in petticoats: a female counterpart to the man referred to. Usually in plural. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > be or become woman [verb (intransitive)] to wear (also be in) petticoats1595 woman1613 feminize1776 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. v. 23 That you might still haue kept your Peticote, and nere haue stolne the Breech from Lancaster. 1662 Duchess of Newcastle Matrimonial Trouble i. iv. xxxviii, in Playes Written 450 Lord, Lord, this nasty love, or rather this beastly lust..breaks peace and makes warrs, and turns arms into petticoats. 1675 Char. Town-gallant 7 There are no Angels but those in Petticoats. a1719 J. Addison Dialogues Medals in Wks. (1721) I. ii. 451 It is a great compliment methinks to the sex,..that your Virtues are generally shown in petticoats. 1766 Ld. Chesterfield Lett. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2733 Ignorance is only pardonable in petticoats. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 297 Since she wears a petticoat..I will answer for her protection as well as a single man may. 1853 C. Kingsley in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 575 Beatrice Cenci is really none other than Percy Bysshe Shelley himself in petticoats. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 She was a sort of Wesley in petticoats. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent vi. 158 She remained a perfect woman..and not as some of them do become—a sort of slippery, pestilential old man in petticoats. 1980 E. Jong Fanny i. xiii. 102 Thus the Sexes will bear out each other's Myths about each other, and e'en those who wish to escape the Pow'r of these Foolish Conventions will find themselves acting as their Breeches or their Petticoats dictate. b. By metonymy: the wearer of a petticoat; a woman or girl. Frequently derogatory. Now usually attributive, esp. in petticoat government n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] wifeeOE womaneOE womanOE queanOE brideOE viragoc1000 to wifeOE burdc1225 ladyc1225 carlinec1375 stotc1386 marec1387 pigsneyc1390 fellowa1393 piecec1400 femalea1425 goddessa1450 fairc1450 womankindc1450 fellowessa1500 femininea1513 tega1529 sister?1532 minikinc1540 wyec1540 placket1547 pig's eye1553 hen?1555 ware1558 pussy?a1560 jade1560 feme1566 gentlewoman1567 mort1567 pinnacea1568 jug1569 rowen1575 tarleather1575 mumps1576 skirt1578 piga1586 rib?1590 puppy1592 smock1592 maness1594 sloy1596 Madonna1602 moll1604 periwinkle1604 Partlet1607 rib of man1609 womanship?1609 modicum1611 Gypsy1612 petticoata1616 runniona1616 birda1627 lucky1629 she-man1640 her1646 lost rib1647 uptails1671 cow1696 tittup1696 cummer17.. wife1702 she-woman1703 person1704 molly1706 fusby1707 goody1708 riding hood1718 birdie1720 faggot1722 piece of goods1727 woman body1771 she-male1776 biddy1785 bitch1785 covess1789 gin1790 pintail1792 buer1807 femme1814 bibi1816 Judy1819 a bit (also bundle) of muslin1823 wifie1823 craft1829 shickster?1834 heifer1835 mot1837 tit1837 Sitt1838 strap1842 hay-bag1851 bint1855 popsy1855 tart1864 woman's woman1868 to deliver the goods1870 chapess1871 Dona1874 girl1878 ladykind1878 mivvy1881 dudess1883 dudette1883 dudine1883 tid1888 totty1890 tootsy1895 floozy1899 dame1902 jane1906 Tom1906 frail1908 bit of stuff1909 quim1909 babe1911 broad1914 muff1914 manhole1916 number1919 rossie1922 bit1923 man's woman1928 scupper1935 split1935 rye mort1936 totsy1938 leg1939 skinny1941 Richard1950 potato1957 scow1960 wimmin1975 womyn1975 womxn1991 a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iv. 7 But I must comfort the weaker vessell, as doublet and hose ought to show it selfe coragious to petty-coate . View more context for this quotation a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 118 The Maistre de Hostell still keeps his state with the better sort of petticoats. 1685 in A. Behn et al. Misc. 274 The Petticoat did make this wond'rous Man, For all his Wisdom, put the Fools-coat on. 1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v Vain is the task to petticoats assign'd, If wanton language shews a naked mind. 1776 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 155 Rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope [etc.]. a1830 R. P. Smith Last Man in America's Lost Plays (1941) XIII. 157 Because it is the village fête, I shall be obliged to dance with every petticoat present. 1864 G. Meredith Emilia in Eng. II. v. 70 Must give up business to-day. Can't do business with a petticoat in the room. 1915 A. Conan Doyle Valley of Fear ii. ii. 194 To think that the same petticoats should come between two of my boys! 1922 H. Titus Timber i. 14 Do you list that with your references? Your luck with these flossy young petticoats? 4. a. Any garment worn by a man which resembles a skirt, e.g. a kilt, a fustanella. Also: the skirts of a clergyman's or scholar's gown (usually depreciative). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > kilt filibeg1746 kilt1746 petticoat1754 Highland kilt1803 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > fustanella fustanella1849 petticoat1910 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews II. iii. vi. 113 His Cassock would serve for Petticoats; and that he would himself be his Partner. View more context for this quotation] 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxii. 185 Those among them who travel on Foot..vary it [sc. the Trowze] into the Quelt..a small Part of the Plaid..is set in Folds and girt round the Waste to make of it a short Petticoat that reaches half Way down the Thigh. 1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxii. 189 That they [sc. Highlanders] would not be so free to skip over the Rocks and Bogs with Breeches, as they are in the short Petticoat. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 232 The short kilt, or petticoat, showed his sinewy and clean-made limbs. View more context for this quotation 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1871) II. xiii. 34 Artists and actors represented Bruce and Douglas in striped petticoats. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour viii. 147 Thus was formed a species of kilt of armour, or iron petticoat. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. Finale 361 In the East the men too wore petticoats. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 484/2 Its [sc. Tosk costume's] distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 557 Raises high behind the celebrant's petticoats, revealing his grey bare hairy buttocks. †b. spec. A wide outer garment of oilskins or rough canvas, reaching below the knee and often undivided, worn by sailors or fishermen. Cf. petticoat trousers n. at Compounds 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > other futah1738 petticoat trousers1749 pareu1769 sisi1810 petticoat1814 grass skirt1875 tub-skirt1909 piupiu1938 cuddle skirt1958 1814 J. B. Scott Diary 6 Sept. in E. Mann Englishman at Home & Abroad (1930) iii. 69 The latter were sailors from the Morea, habited in a kind of short petticoat tied at the knees. 1837 J. F. Cooper Recoll. Europe I. 38 The Channel waterman wore the short dowlas petticoat. 1887 W. Besant World Went x. 84 He wore a common sailor's petticoat or slop. 5. In plural. Skirts worn by children, including young boys. Chiefly in in petticoats: wearing an infant's petticoats; (of a boy) very young, not old enough for trousers or breeches. Now archaic and historical. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of petticoats1781 machicote1791 ghaghraa1836 lehnga1880 1781 J. Byng Diary 8 July in Torrington Diaries (1934) I. 55 We had been invited to hear an infant in petticoats play tunes upon the violin. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow (ed. 2) I. xiv. 183 The old woman..executed her parental authority as if he were still in petticoats. 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon I. 253 I have known him ever since he was in petticoats. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. at Bentham, Jeremy There is a story that when in petticoats he was found seated at a reading-desk..absorbed in the study of a folio copy of Rapin's ‘History of England’. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xvii. 130 She..pinned over her head a piece of soft flannel that had been one of Thor's long petticoats when he was a baby. 1979 Bull. Yorks. Dial. Soc. Summer 21 Ah was onnly i petticooats, so ah mun onnly a bin aboot three or fooar. 1992 C. Harvey Legacy of Love (BNC) 210 I am extremely tired and I fear I'm not as patient as I should be, poor little creatures, and the baby still in his petticoats. 6. Extended uses. a. Railways. In full petticoat pipe. A bell-mouthed or tapering pipe (sometimes one of a number) fitted between the blastpipe and the chimney of a steam locomotive, into which the exhaust steam enters and which serves to strengthen and equalize the draught through the boiler tubes. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > chimney of > part of bonnet1846 petticoat pipe1858 sparker1864 1858 Sci. Amer. 16 Oct. 42/4 I claim the combination of the petticoat pipe, the surrounding wire net work and the smoke pipe, whereby [etc.]. 1878 Engineer 46 57/3 A good modification of the well-known American petticoat pipe. 1988 D. Huntriss LMS Pacifics 14 The locomotive's petticoat had become detached and dropped on top of the blast pipe, causing a very serious blowback in the cab. 1991 Model Railways Mar. 150/3 Inside the smokebox..were two sets of petticoat and blast pipes. 2000 P. W. B. Semmens & A. J. Goldfinch How Steam Locomotives really Work iii. 79 A blower consists of a ring of holes, either in a tube surrounding the blastpipe, or in the petticoat, which discharge jets of steam up the chimney. †b. Archery. The outer non-scoring circle of an archery target. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target > parts of pin1584 gold1798 eye1818 blue1830 bull's-eye1833 garland1847 petticoat1864 bull1900 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Petticoat, the outer space or surface of a target. [Eng.] 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 378/2 Petticoat, or Spoon, the ground of the target beyond the white. c. A usually ruffled floor-length cover or fringe for a dressing table, etc. Cf. petticoated adj. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > covers or hangings > [noun] > cover for furniture > for dressing table toilet1665 toilet cover1772 petticoat1880 1880 S. Baring-Gould Mehalah I. xii. 230 The dressing-table had a pink petticoat with gauze over it. 1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. iv. 38 The mahogany dressing-table had acquired a muslin petticoat. d. A part of an insulator in the shape of a cup or umbrella, surrounding the end of a telegraph wire or other conductor in order to protect it from rain or damp. Cf. petticoat insulator n. at Compounds 3. Now rare. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Petticoat,..the depending skirt or inverted cup-shaped part of an insulator for supporting telegraph-lines, the function of which is to protect the stem from rain. 1910 Hawkins' Electr. Dict. 391/2 Shed of insulator, the petticoat of a line wire insulator. 1926 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 111 620 The leading-in insulator was in the form of a tall ebonite tube with three drying petticoats. 2004 Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 15 Feb. (People section) The insulators in Hill's collection start at 1871 and run through 1930... The functional pieces of glass art have names like Chicago diamond, gingerbread man, petticoat, Mickey Mouse, beehive and teapot. †e. A sheeting hung round a yacht to conceal its design during launching. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > sheeting round yacht being launched petticoat1899 1899 Westm. Gaz. 24 June 7/2 Shamrock is to be launched ‘in petticoats’ on Monday. 1899 Daily News 27 June 7/3 A long curtain or ‘petticoat’ hung over the stern of the boat, and, reaching to the ground, effectually prevented any view of the keel and lower part of the yacht. f. A flared projection forming the foot of a tankard. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > other specific shapes > foot of gripe-foot1451 petticoat1903 1903 P. Macquoid in Burlington Mag. Apr. 173/2 In about 1640..the tankard becomes plain and high with a so-called petticoat shooting out at the bottom. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1587 Acct. Bk. in Antiquary 32 118 vj yeardes of petecote lace, xviijd. 1789 E. Rigby Let. 24 July in Dr. Rigby's Lett. (1880) 109 The riding-habit was divided in the petticoat past. 1814 J. Knox Let. in A. E. Blake Mem. Vanished Generation (1909) i. 18 Mine had no pattern over, but a border of silver roses round the petticoat train and draperies. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 663/1 I would warrant every knave of them to kiss the hem of the petticoat-tail of the smallest member of the sacred conclave. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Sept. 6/2 A petticoated generation could never do the full work of a generation whose limbs were free of petticoat encumbrance. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 276 A petticoat string dangled to the floor. 1979 C. Wood James Bond & Moonraker xi. 112 She had big puffed sleeves..and a petticoat effect of over-lapping polka-dotted skirts. 2001 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Nov. 29 Three miners' wives stitched it together from petticoat material and woollen scraps. C2. attributive in metonymical use (cf. sense 3). a. With sense ‘that is a woman; female; womanish’. Now somewhat archaic. ΚΠ 1620 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster iv. i Oh thou pernicious Petticoat Prince, are these your vertues? Well, if I do not lay a train to blow your sport up, I am no woman. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. vi. 85 The ignorant Empiricke, the peticoate or woman-physitian. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 10 Many a Heccatomb of humble Prayers, does he offer to appease this Petticoat-Deity. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶4 A Seminary of Petticoat Politicians, who are to be brought up at the Feet of Madam de Maintenon. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 213 To ridicule the petticoat pedant. 1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. App. 100 A Petticoat Pope in the Ninth Century. 1837 Gambler's Dream I. 269 The petticoat puzzletext curtsied to her young master and retired. 1913 J. Brandt (title) Petticoat Commando. 1988 R. E. Gordon (title) Petticoat pioneers. Women of distinction. 2000 Early Amer. Lit. (Nexis) 35 187 A metaphoric rebellion against the monarchic wife, the domestic, colonial, petticoat governor. b. With sense ‘of or relating to a woman or women; feminine’. ΚΠ 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 30 The Petticoat Sex. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon i. i. 1 Venus may know more than both of us, For 'tis some Petticoat Affair. 1763 F. Brooke Hist. Lady Julia Mandeville II. 112 I am seldom at a loss to explore the source of petticoat-politics. 1792 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1938) VI. 914 Not even Petticoat influence shall prevail! 1806 in Francis Lett. (1901) II. 638 I will not go to Petticoat Parties. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 297 He will obey you in making a weapon, or in welding one, but he knows nothing of this petticoat service. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. vi. 63 The coarsest allusions to petticoat influence. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 23 May 4/2 Miss Gertrude Elliott has the only petticoat part [in a play]. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix II (1968) 549 It's not a question of petticoat rule..the modern young woman is not going to spend her life managing some little husband. 1976 Liverpool Echo 23 Nov. 18/8 The occasion is the Petticoat Derby—the wives and girlfriends of the Liverpool players against their counterparts from Goodison. 2003 Brentwood Gaz. (Nexis) 13 Aug. 9 She..has been..for the last two years at the sharp end of petticoat power. C3. petticoat bodice n. rare = petticoat body n. ΚΠ 1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in Little Rev. June 40 A plump..arm shone, was seen, held forth from a white petticoatbodice. † petticoat body n. Obsolete a usually sleeveless bodice attached to or worn with a petticoat. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > bodice waistcoat1580 petticoat body1585 bodicea1625 jump1666 jacket bodice1856 camisole1866 spencer1881 bust bodice1889 liberty bodice1892 petticoat bodice1919 cami1995 1585 in J. Arnold Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (1988) 155/1 Two payer of petycoate bodies of satten lyned with sarceonett. 1605 P. Erondelle French Garden sig. D8^v Bring my petty-coate bodyes: I meane my damask quilt bodies with whale bones. 1862 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 4 238/2 Patterns of the newest and most fashionable under-linen, including..petticoat band, petticoat body. 1891 F. Marryat There is no Death xii. 116 She had not got on ‘Rosie's’ petticoat body. petticoat breeches n. now historical loose wide breeches with legs resembling skirts, spec. those fashionable during the early reign of Charles II. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > breeches > wide or loose slops1481 slopper1549 gally breeches1567 gally hose1567 gaskin breeches1573 gaskins1573 galligaskin1577 galligaskin breeches1577 galligaskin1592 slivings1601 gregs1611 petticoat breeches1658 Rhinegrave1667 bushel-breeches1834 romper1922 1658 R. Holme Notebk. (modernized text) in F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (1885) 255 Short-waisted doublet and petticoat-breeches, the lining lower than the breeches tied above the knee. 1775 J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan II. 101 Here we see the open sleeve and the short-waisted doublet, with the petticoat breeches. 1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (1885) Gloss. at Breeches Towards the end of the reign of Charles the petticoat-breeches were discarded. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 7 June (Books section) 7 I find it quite possible to imagine, say, Tony Blair rigged out in the petticoat breeches of his Parliamentary predecessors 300 years ago. petticoat discipline n. (in sadomasochism) the humiliation of a male submissive by a (usually female) dominant in which the submissive is dressed in women's lingerie and made to endure various degrading actions. ΚΠ 1912 in P. Farrar Confid. Corr. on Cross-dressing (1997) 21 The novel punishment of petticoat discipline is a most fascinating subject, and one that I, as a former victim, never tire of reading about. 1987 Women in Command in T. E. Murray & T. R. Murrell Lang. Sadomasochism 105 Total Petticoat discipline when mistress punishes her pantywaist sissy! 2003 Femdom Story—Harold in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet newsgroup) 27 Aug. Her two younger brothers were subjected to strict petticoat discipline. petticoat insulator n. now rare an insulator incorporating one or more petticoats (sense 6d). ΚΠ 1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Petticoat insulator. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 631/2 Petticoat insulator, a pin-type insulator equipped with one or more petticoats. petticoat maker n. now rare a maker of petticoats; (formerly) spec. †a maker of farthingales (obsolete). ΚΠ 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Peticote maker, indusiarius. 1783 R. Ainsworth Thes. Ling. Lat. Compend. A pettycoat maker, indusiorum, muliebrium opisex. 1881 Scribner's Monthly Sept. 675/2 They are evidently only a petticoat-maker's second thought. 1995 Daily Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 4 June She fluttered the hearts of petticoat makers, lace salesmen and net weavers. † petticoat-monger n. Obsolete a whoremonger; = pimp n.¹ 1a. ΚΠ 1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. I2 You pickt-hatch Caualiero petticote-monger. † petticoat-pensioner n. cant Obsolete a man paid by a woman, a woman's fancy man. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > woman's hired lover stallion1676 petticoat-pensioner1699 gigolo1922 Valentino1927 toyboy1981 boy toy1982 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Pettycoat-Pensioner, a Gallant, or one Maintain'd for secret Service. 1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool I. 142 What, you Pimp, do you want to turn Petticoat Pensioner. 1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. IV. 327/1 He became a petticoat-pensioner. petticoat pipe n. see sense 6a. petticoat trousers n. now rare †(a) U.S. colloquial, (in New England) a name for wide baggy trousers (cf. petticoat breeches n.) (obsolete); (b) = sense 4b; (c) applied to the wide-legged trousers worn by women of various Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > made from specific material > other futah1738 petticoat trousers1749 pareu1769 sisi1810 petticoat1814 grass skirt1875 tub-skirt1909 piupiu1938 cuddle skirt1958 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose slops1481 shipman's hose1540 slop1560 shipman's breek1563 drawers1567 kelsouns1568 scaling1577 scavilones1577 scabilonian1600 calzoons1615 linings1631 swabber-slopsa1658 pantaloon1686 underslops1737 trousers1773 pyjamas1801 Cossacks1820 Turkish trousers1821 hakama1822 salwar1824 slacks1824 sherwal1844 overall1845 bag1853 sack-pants1856 bloomer1862 trouser skirt1883 petticoat trousers1885 mompe1908 step-in1922 bombachas1936 baggies1962 jams1966 palazzo1970 hose- 1749 N.-Y. Gaz. Revived in Weekly Post-boy 11 Sept. 3/2 Had on when he went away..Oznabrigs Shirt, petticoat Trowsers, yarn Stockings. 1753 in New Jersey Archives (1897) 19 291 He took with him..two Pair of Petticoat Trowsers. 1854 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 4 Nov. 267/1 They [sc. the fishermen] encase themselves in..wonderful overalls and petticoat trowsers, made to all appearance of tarry old sails. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma 60 Monsieur arrayed in the foraging cap, the little coatee, the petticoat trowsers..of his long adopted country. 1881 Harper's Mag. Jan. 190/1 One day two sailors, dressed in petticoat trousers..arrested the attention of a young girl. 1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. II. xxxiv. 6 The strings of her petticoat-trousers. 1939 Times 26 July 12/2 The sailor in petticoat trousers. 2001 Man from Orgy 4 in alt.sex.stories (Usenet newsgroup) 1 Nov. She went on to explain to me the complexities of the sirwal, or petticoat trousers frequently worn by Arab women. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). petticoatv. Brit. /ˈpɛtɪkəʊt/, U.S. /ˈpɛdiˌkoʊt/, /ˈpɛdəˌkoʊt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: petticoat n. Etymology: < petticoat n. Compare earlier petticoated adj. Now rare. transitive. To put a petticoat on (in various senses); to clothe in petticoats. Also figurative: to treat as a woman; to surround with female company. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > make woman [verb (transitive)] > treat as woman petticoat1895 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. lxxvii. 283 I will contrive to be the man, petticoated out, and vested in a gown and cassock. 1796 F. Burney Camilla III. v. vi. 89 A very will-o'-the-wisp, personified and petticoated, shining but to lead astray. 1883 M. Rule Life S. Anselm II. vii. vii. 286 In the September of 1102..his recalcitrant barons had been punished, and the rest of them petticoated. 1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 175 The Shawnees..were restless in being what was termed ‘petticoated’ by the Iroquois. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum iv. 40 Julius is just petticoated to death between us. 1936 Amer. Home Feb. 88/2 (caption) The dressing table is petticoated in the same chintz as that used for the chaise longue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1425v.1748
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