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单词 in petticoats
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in petticoats
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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petticoats1781
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ghaghraa1836
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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.
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