What's the difference between petticoat and placket?

Petticoat


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saturday’s can-can dancers – with their petticoats in team colours – were a novelty but it is Toulon’s can-do attitude towards recruitment that is taking them – regardless of the tournament they play in – to places others cannot reach.
  • (2) This week’s Champions League semi-finals did not have the gravitas of 1792’s famous “Petticoat Coat” duel between Lady Almeria Braddock and Mrs Elphinstone, but the stakes were high all the same.
  • (3) They included an elaborate military jacket, embroidered kimonos and a "petticoat cage" (a hooped underskirt normally worn under crinolines).
  • (4) Come here for secondhand cartoon sweaters, neon petticoats and pink roller skates or a T-shirt with a cracked silk screen of 1980s-era Madonna.
  • (5) Hadow puts it more chivalrously: "I see the Arctic as a maiden newly discovered on the social scene, and we're melting away her petticoats, and there are some avaricious types peering underneath, and someone needs to defend her honour."
  • (6) The other woman we were sneakily reading in 1963 was Simone de Beauvoir, but the childhoods of little-girl colonials such as ourselves lacked starched petticoats and were not very French.
  • (7) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
  • (8) A Conservative MP has criticised the "night of the petticoats" reshuffle that brought several new women into the cabinet last week.
  • (9) Some of them dealt with Cambridge, Paris and Switzerland, while those on his upbringing were not only delightful but almost intolerably poignant to anyone of his generation: rationing, London fogs, trolleybuses, the local Sainsbury's which still had sawdust on its floor and "assistants in starched blue-and-white aprons", not to mention the way that "girls in those days came buttressed in an impenetrable Maginot Line of hooks, belts, girdles, nylons, roll-ons, suspenders, slips and petticoats".
  • (10) "Keira was lovely to act with, but there were something like 73 layers of petticoat to get through.
  • (11) Rachel Simpson, blogger at Pretty Petticoats and second-year fashion retail management student at Birmingham City University I've never attended any of the shows, but I go down to Somerset House during London Fashion Week to get inspiration from what everyone is wearing.
  • (12) At other times she used her Lady Bracknell manner to get past KGB officers; when she went to Zimbabwe she adopted the air of a slightly senile elderly tourist and in El Salvador she made a white flag to fly on the car out of an M&S petticoat.
  • (13) A pink petticoat in the forecourt distinguishes this two-storey heap of rubble from other more intact buildings nearby.
  • (14) For reasons which may or may not be connected to voluminous frilly petticoats, the most attractive period is often the Victorian age.
  • (15) Each shop – Secret Dog, Garter, Ilil, Hayatochiri and Southpole - is owned by young enthusiastic designers who toil away making one-off pieces like petticoats and blouses made from wire mesh, or a pair of Nike Air Force 1 trainers nailed to traditional wooden sandal blocks and spray-painted pink.

Placket


Definition:

  • (n.) A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.
  • (n.) The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; -- called also placket hole.
  • (n.) A woman's pocket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a series of experiments involving solubility, pH, and excipient compatibility using Placket Burman experimental design, the formulation has been finalized.

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