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Definition of Petticoated
1. Adjective. Wearing or furnished with a petticoat. "A petticoated table"
Definition of Petticoated
1. Adjective. wearing a petticoat ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petticoated
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petticoated
Literary usage of Petticoated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Friesland Meres and Through the Netherlands: The Voyage of a Family in a by Henry Montagu Doughty (1890)
"Our crew—The Gipsy's boats—A "boerderij "—The Friesch attitude—petticoated
windmills—Race with ... petticoated ..."
2. The Dawn of Italian Independence: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1814 by William Roscoe Thayer (1893)
"Those petticoated old men wrangled manfully until the moment when a foe made ...
the petticoated schemers of the Vatican would send post-haste for his help. ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... or cured her—and either way I would have been a gainer—I have been rash—I have
been rash." " O! my bonnie petticoated she- fiend, lady Extravagance ! ..."
4. Manual of surgery for students and practitioners by William Rose (1904)
"If noticed during the operation, t is treated by syringing out the wound with
iced lotion, and the insertion of an iir tampon or a petticoated tube. ..."
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