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ˈunder-ˌpetticoat
(under-1 5 a.)
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xv. 41 She..herselfe comes, having onely put on an under-petticoate. 1670in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 21 Plaine black skirts,..and the under pettycoatt very richly laced. 1716Lady Montagu Let. to C'tess of Bristol 22 Aug., Like a poor town lady of pleasure..with..a ragged under-petticoat. 1762Sterne Tr. Shandy v. vii, Her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iv. xvi. 295 Why one should go out to dine with one's own daughter..as if one's under-petticoat was a backboard. 1924R. Macaulay Orphan Island xiii. 156 Flora looked with interest at Rosamond's cami-knickers, Rosamond at Flora's under-petticoat of scarlet-dyed cocoa-nut cloth.
Hence ˈunder-ˌpetticoated a.
1748Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 257 They were all slip-shoed; stockenless some; only under-petticoated all. |