petticoat

• The women dress in a coloured cotton or silk petticoat, a short-sleeved bodice and a coloured cotton head-scarf. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• Rip, in fact, was no politician; the changes of states and empires made but little impression on him; but there was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was--petticoat government. —  The Short-story
• I landed my wife at Whitefriars with Ł5 to buy her a petticoat, and my father persuaded her to buy a most fine cloth, of 26_s. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
• She had torn a silk flounce on her petticoat, and would thank me to act as interpreter in buying a box of safety-pins. —  The Chauffeur and the Chaperon
• The queen also wore a petticoat, and so did little Chickchick, but not a rap else, nor did they seem to think it was necessary. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days

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