(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.
Skirt
Definition:
(n.) The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
(n.) A loose edging to any part of a dress.
(n.) Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
(n.) A petticoat.
(n.) The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
(v. t.) To cover with a skirt; to surround.
(v. t.) To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
(v. t.) To be on the border; to live near the border, or extremity.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(2) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(3) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
(4) She loves the work of Adjanass ( adjanass-creations.com ), a striking young woman from Togo who takes cloth from her native country (a variation on batik learned by African soldiers fighting France's Indochina wars) and makes dresses, skirts and tops that look Indonesian, but use Africa's vibrant colours.
(5) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(6) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
(7) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
(8) And in the process, the food industry is skirting food additive regulations.
(9) "I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long.
(10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
(11) Banwari Lal Singhal said private schools allowing students to wear skirts explained increased sexual harassment locally.
(12) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
(13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
(14) We’re back to those flappers, with their jobs and their knee-length skirts and their dangerous opinions about politics, or the girls of the 1960s destroying the traditional family by wantonly taking the pill.
(15) In that respect, … skirt size as a proxy for waist circumference is easily remembered over time.” The researchers estimate that the five-year absolute risk of postmenopausal breast cancer rises from one in 61 to one in 51 with each increase in skirt size every 10 years.
(16) These days the modern older woman may go for the half-gomas, she explains - a short jacket and matching full-length skirt which is lighter to wear.
(17) Movies spanning the quality spectrum from Risky Business to Annie Hall to Roman Holiday all famously affected people’s actual wardrobes (respectively, Ray-Bans, men’s tailoring on women and full skirts and head scarves.)
(18) Of these 200 patients, 65% believed physicians should wear a white coat, 27% believed physicians should not wear tennis shoes, 52% believed physicians should not wear blue jeans, 37% believed male physicians should wear neckties, and 34% believed female physicians should wear dresses or skirts.
(19) He believed that policy and principle without power were simply not enough to deliver the better life that he fought for on behalf of his constituents for almost 50 years.” Corbyn skirted over their differences and said he would miss Kaufman’s “constant friendship”.
(20) I wanted a better life.” Dressed for the festival in a smart black skirt and a high-necked blouse adorned with a cameo necklace, she is enjoying the lavish spectacle.