What is "petticoats"

Usage examples of "petticoats".

Their dresses fitted their figures, and were trimmed with fur and stiffened with whalebones, so they went into the next room, and came back in white bodices and short dimity petticoats, laughing at the slightness of their attire.

They only answered that girls were not allowed to take such a liberty, as they wore petticoats on purpose to conceal their legs.

This shopping took up all the morning, and in the afternoon the man took her a small trunk containing two dresses, chemises, petticoats, handkerchiefs, stockings, gloves, caps, a pair of slippers, a fan, a work-bag, and a mantle.

All the seats were covered with dresses, petticoats, and chemises, and I heard a small feminine voice begging me to sit on her bed.

I want some fine linen for twenty-four chemises, some dimity for stays and petticoats, some muslin, some cambric for pocket-handkerchiefs, and many other articles which I should be very glad to find in your shop, for I am a stranger here, and God knows in what hands I am going to trust myself!

This made them gayer than ever, for they had not noticed that their unlaced bodices and short petticoats let me see almost everything.

The armchairs and window seat were heaped high with gowns, petticoats, fichus, shawls and manteaux, scarves, feathers and ribbons.

Her companion, who had picked himself up without any injury, hastened towards us, and there was the lovely creature sitting on the ground thoroughly amazed, and less confused from her fall than from the indiscretion of her petticoats, which had exposed in all their nakedness certain parts which an honest woman never shews to a stranger.

The wilted voile dress went first, followed by layered petticoats, kid slippers, stockings and garters.

Kairthe helped her to dress, tying satin garters, lacing boned corset, fastening corset-cover and petticoats, and finally wrapping a light, voluminous dressing gown over all.

Gowns and petticoats, many of them senselessly torn and dirtied, were scattered everywhere.

On a sweltering night at the height of summer, Eliste sat in her bedchamber, fanning herself and supervising while Kairthe sewed jewellery into the hems of petticoats and chemises.

She expected a dress to be ready for the next day, and she was already supplied with petticoats and chemises.

Corsets, petticoats, gowns, kerchief, fans, work-bags, rougeboxes, masks, gloves-all were there.

Then going to the chest of drawers that stood in the corner, she pulled the top one open and took out her petticoats and stockings and three white handkerchiefs.