petticoats

Meaning of petticoats

noun
  1. A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by men over a shirt and under the doublet.
  2. A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
  3. A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
  4. A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
  5. A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
  6. A woman.
  7. A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.

Information about petticoats

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of petticoats is: petticoat.
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Hyphenation of petticoats

pet-ti-coats

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • petticoats is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

petticoats synonyms

Meaning :

underskirt

Words that rhyme with petticoats

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