Crossword-Solution: PETTICOAT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Petticoat | n. | A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “PETTICOAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| farthingale | 1 answer |
| Woman's old-fashioned underskirt | 1 answer |
| Voluminous undergarment | 1 answer |
| Slip, but not blunder | 1 answer |
| Ruffled-edge underskirt | 1 answer |
| Junction of note | 1 answer |
| Frilly underskirt of yore | 1 answer |
| Frilly underskirt | 1 answer |
| Frilly undergarment | 1 answer |
| Frilly garment in many a costume drama | 1 answer |
| Underskirt | 2 answers |
| kirtle | 7 answers |
| Balmoral | 7 answers |
| bodywear | 17 answers |
| Undergarment | 24 answers |
| Feminine | 26 answers |
| Underwear | 33 answers |
| Junction | 38 answers |
| woman's garment | 39 answers |
| Skirt | 44 answers |
| Lane | 50 answers |
| Girl | 82 answers |
| Garment | 109 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PETTICOAT (5)
The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution.
She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold, which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time, and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
But for that outfit, we should have discovered a new nightgown or petticoat among Rosanna’s things, and have nailed her in that way.
How would he bear to have Miss Bates belonging to him?—To have her haunting the Abbey, and thanking him all day long for his great kindness in marrying Jane?—‘So very kind and obliging!—But he always had been such a very kind neighbour!’ And then fly off, through half a sentence, to her mother’s old petticoat.
But it was still brought forth in moments of trouble to have its tinseled petticoat twisted about and be set up on its altar.
Quotes with PETTICOAT (3)
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
He was savoring for the first time the ineffable subtleties of feminine refinement. Never had he encountered this grace of language, this quiet taste in dress, these relaxed, dove like postures. He marveled at the sublimity of her soul and at the lace on her petticoat. With her ever-changing moods, by turns brooding and gay, chattering and silent, fiery and casual, she aroused in him a thousand desires, awakening instincts or memories. She was the amoureuse of all the novels,…
It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all tests. No ruler would deliberately dress up in the recognized fetters of a slave; no judge would would appear covered with broad arrows. But when men wish to be safely impressive, as judges, priests or kings, they do wear skirts, the long, trailing robes of female dignity. The whole world is under petticoat government; for even men wear petticoats when they wish to govern.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, Universal.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).