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Sentence Examples
Beverly played a prim townswoman in a pink silk dress, complete with bonnet, parasol, corset, and petticoat.
The princess wore a mantua and petticoat, white damask with the finest embroidery of rich embossed gold.
She was feeling less bitter, so she took off her petticoat and put on her greatcoat, the better to be magnanimous.
His distinctive creations were an immediate success, particularly a dress called Cafe Anglais, in houndstooth with a petticoat edging.
One of the classics is petticoat tails, which are shaped in a segmented round.
She ran as fast as her stays and petticoat would allow to that pond she could see so clearly in her mind.
Grab sarees, dhotis, polyester printed fabrics, cotton shirts, blouse and petticoat materials at 50 to 70 per cent discount.
It fell to the ground in layers, with no petticoat or hoop skirt underneath.
Her skirt was black and also flared out with the help of a crinoline petticoat underneath.
I dropped Fanny's petticoat that I had been unpinning from the clothesline and ran inside after my sister.
The hoop petticoat narcissus, snowdrops, scillas, and crocus are perhaps the most delightful subjects for the purpose.
She surrenders her virtue to the sleazebucket Wasey at the drop of a petticoat.
The petticoat had a dual role as both an underlinen and a structural garment.
Elizabeth had only gone a little ways into the trees beyond her house when her stays and petticoat lead to her ruin and Will caught her.
It is fitted to the waist and then has an almost petticoat effect with the six skirt godets of the same fabric.
Nancy was renowned as a petticoat president who dominated the White House.
As she speaks she adopts the pose of a sexually assured and admired woman, drawing down one strap of her petticoat to reveal and stroke a glamorous neck and chest.
A rigid corset continued to slenderize the waist and a framework petticoat to define the shape of the skirt.
Dress consisted of a petticoat with fine braces and one on natural silk dress.
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Then you must pleat the fabric and tuck it in into the waist of the petticoat and secure it with a safety pin.
This is worn over a layered net and hooped petticoat to create the volume in the skirts.
Petticoat tails are Scottish shortbread biscuits, baked in a round, with a characteristic shape resembling that of an outspread bell-hoop crinoline petticoat.
Barefooted men, with a petticoat in white hemp charge in their shoulders a plough's wood attached with large cords that spiral their arms until it bites and paralyses their chest.
The black and turquoise petticoat is included.
It is worn with a petticoat that is NOT included.
To avoid this and provide puffy clothes the volume they need, here's the bell-shaped crinoline by Lusty'n Wonderland, a compromise between the crinoline and the petticoat, suited to the needs of Lolitas.
What should ail them, but a jacket and petticoat of good yard-wide stuff, or calimanco, might keep them decent and warm.
I don't approve of petticoat government, as a general thing, but I'll be shot with a shovel if it ain't necessary with fellows like Stanhope!
Morag put on a third petticoat, of a more washen red than the second, but this one would not fix without its safety-pin.
The 18-year-old, who served in Flanders for three years, stole a camblet cloak, a coat and petticoat.
A brightly embroidered petticoat completes the costume.
Whether you're donning a bonnet and petticoat, or top hat and braces, spend a couple of hours around town feeling like a real inhabitant of Upper Canada Village.
Then put your petticoat on under the gown.
There are a lot of garments appearing in shops that have a top layer made of lace or see-through fabric, or a petticoat layer peeping out from underneath.
The grander the occasion, the larger the width of the hoop petticoat.
Only after the child's death of smallpox at the age of 19 did she set off down-river in search of the geographer, dressed in a velvet petticoat and carried in a palanquin, accompanied by two of her brothers and a nephew.
That is why swimsuits and bikinis all have extra support around the bosom: underwiring, fixed or removable cups, petticoat support or half-corsage.
On one occasion it tried to creep under her petticoat and lick her, so she thrashed it with the dogwhip.
It comes with matching headband, optional sleeve panels and petticoat.
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This drama is proving frillier than a petticoat but sometimes inoffensive telly is just what's needed.
I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,... and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.
It was pettier than the actress Lori Petty being scolded by a petty officer for buying a petticoat with petty cash to wear at a Tom Petty concert.
Though this film is frillier than a cancan petticoat, it's impossible not to be turned on by its charm, its lure of decadence, romance and pure escapism.
Examples from Classical Literature
Below, and two or three inches from the edge of the chemisette, is attached a variously coloured petticoat of very bright hues.
A furbelow of precious stones, a hat buttoned with a diamond, a brocade waistcoat or petticoat, are standing topics.
Perhaps, however, the most wonderful part of the Suomi Jehu's attire was his petticoat.
Here the Admiralty clerks wife had a mind to a petticoat of sarcenet bordered with black lace, and probably purchased it.
Maria, with a jetted jacket, yellow petticoat and reboza, was waiting for her husband.
My friend put on a more respectable underskirt of mine over her linsey petticoat.
In country places women wear the petticoat alone, using the overskirt or huipil only on special occasions.
It started by sketching a history of the petticoat, beginning with Eve's fig leaf and working up.
I thought I'd take off my flannelette petticoat, only the horrid strings got into a hard knot.
The dragoman is exquisitely arrayed, galabeah and kaftan gray-blue, with a pink petticoat, and a white one under that.
The two frilly night-dresses, the other chemise, the other petticoat, the extra stockings?
They crept and crept, the hem of her petticoat just touching his gaiter, and his elbow sometimes brushing hers.
You see it is impossible for him to stop in here with you for ever, as if he was sewn on to your petticoat.
And the knight, Sir Oliver Lollio, swore he would bestow a taffeta petticoat on thee, but to break his fast with thee.
She was slenderer than ever in the short satin petticoat that was her inner sheath.
But she soon laid it down on the work-table, between a petticoat and a bundle of shirts.
It sounds like a diminished silk petticoat which has lost its blatancy, but retains its personality.
Her petticoat was very short, lightly puffed on the sides, and ornamented only with two very long pockets trimmed like the camail.
Then she slipped off her petticoat and camisole, and put on the muslin wrapper.
Mrs. Bindle, in petticoat and camisole, pushed Bindle aside and took her place in front of the mirror.
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But sink me now if I'd rot myself in rum on account of anything that wears a petticoat.
How much, therefore, of herself must inhere in a garment so confidential as a petticoat, or so close and constant a companion as a stocking!
Her figure, shapeless and waistless, was garbed in a rough man's shirt and in a ragged flannel petticoat that had once been red.
Her print gown was tucked up, and she was wearing a large apron over her striped petticoat.
Apuleius and Fielding and Boccaccio, bad companions for a petticoat, I'm afraid, bad companions too for so young a man as I had now become.
She was wearing a linsey petticoat and a short gown for an overskirt.
This unblushing statement was not, I could see, without its effect upon the present owner of the petticoat.
It was all so long ago, even the word petticoat sounds like something from another era like farthingale or furbelow.
According to Baber, the Lolo petticoat is of great significance.
A coarse woollen petticoat in black and gray stripes, too short by several inches, exposed her legs.
I saw Leah enter my room in her chemise and a light petticoat.
Would she not condescend to wear a few gems in her petticoat?
I dropt my petticoat, and could not get it up from the bottom.
Do you see that milk-girl with her scarlet petticoat and Flemish faille?
Her flowered petticoat was fastened at the waist with two pins.
Who in this humble out-of-the-way cottage could afford to wear that exquisite cambric petticoat edged with a fine and very expensive lace?
So the day of the petticoat politician is not over in Italy yet?
Well, there was a skirt, a petticoat, some stockings and other things.
She made one petticoat, and then gently appealed to her husband.
When they find me in that little lodging so grotesquely muffled in petticoat and coif, perchance they will burst with laughter.
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One morning, feeling more frisky than usual, she fell upon her knees and wept in the woodman's petticoat.
Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
You are forgetting that the petticoat is a vestment unknown in China.
In summer, a scarlet petticoat made of stammel or linsey-woolsey.
The kirtle or petticoat is in reality a development of the tunic.
I next removed the white and cumbersome parts of my underclothing, and replaced them by a petticoat of dark flannel.
This is my dress, and there's a petticoat and stockings to match it.
Indecent, if you ask me, with not a petticoat under it, I'll be bound!
The poor girl had gone scarlet, scarlet as the petticoat which I was sure WAS hers, with probably a fellow at the moment keeping warm her buxom figure.
Not that it was such a very old petticoat eitherfor still it would last a great whileand, indeed, she must thankfully say that their petticoats were all very strong.
Now, for the purpose, therefore, of a romance that makes no pretence to reasonableness, I had very good reasons for buying that petticoat, which I will now lay before you.
By this token you will know that the fairy tale I have been telling you is true, and to-morrow, if you will, you shall see your autograph petticoat.
So I came quickly, and led by the white-haired Arthurs in a jacket and petticoat, entered a double-bedded room reeking with steam and Friar's Balsam.
I am far from despising an honest red-flannel country petticoat.
Already, she naughtily reminded me, we possessed a petticoat between us.
