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Example sentences for: petticoat

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In those days a great divide separated underwear from outerwear, so a glimpse of petticoat frill was a thrill.
petticoat ( n .) Used symbolically to represent the female sex.
"It makes Melrose Place look like Petticoat Junction ," says Newsweek 's Rick Marin.
In 1756 Sir William Johnson wrote to the Lords of Trade, “I concluded this treaty by taking off the Petticoat, or that invidious name of Women, from the Delaware Nation which hath been imposed upon them by the Six Nations from the time they conquored them.”