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How to pronounce “petticoat”
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Pronunciation guide for petticoat
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of petticoat with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age
and I was living in “Petticoat Junction.”
- Definition summary
- (historical) A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.
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How to pronounce petticoat
How to Discover Your Authentic Self -- at Any Age
and I was living in “Petticoat Junction.”
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “petticoat”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (historical) A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.
- (historical) A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
- (historical) A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
- (archaic or historical) A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
- 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.
- (slang) A woman.
- (historical) A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To dress in a petticoat.
- [Adjective]
- (dated) Feminine; female; involving a woman.
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