英语词汇“a in petticoats”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

单词	a in petticoats
释义	> as lemmas a (specified male) in petticoats 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. extracted from petticoatn. < as lemmas
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