petticoat, half-slip, underskirt
(noun) undergarment worn under a skirt
Source: WordNet® 3.1
petticoat (plural petticoats)
(historical) A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by men 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.
• underskirt
petticoat (third-person singular simple present petticoats, present participle petticoating, simple past and past participle petticoated)
(transitive) To dress in a petticoat.
petticoat (not comparable)
(dated) Feminine; female; involving a woman.
Source: Wiktionary
Pet"ti*coat, n. (Zoöl.) Etym: [Petty + coat.]
Definition: A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist. Petticoat government, government by women, whether in politics or domestic affairs. [Colloq.] -- Petticoat pipe (Locomotives), a short, flaring pipe surrounding the blast nozzle in the smoke box, to equalize the draft.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
