How to Use petticoat in a Sentence

petticoat

noun

• Her lacy petticoat and bodice showed up dead white in the light of the blazing fire.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• It's made from a smaller petticoat that came out of a prom dress.
  — Andrea Reeves, Cincinnati.com, 30 Apr. 2020
• There was an imprint of Irene's petticoat found on the banks of the canal and a partial heel print from a man's shoe.
  — CBS News, 27 Jan. 2018
• Like southern belles’ petticoats Soon gone with the wind.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2018
• Cut into petticoat tails and enjoy with a cup of strong black tea.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 3 Feb. 2022
• And then the score: frilly dresses with petticoats for her and her three older sisters.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• Next, Joubert steers me to a display of store mannequins in petticoats.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 6 June 2019
• The skirt dragging behind her looks like a petticoat that's been through an apocalypse, burned to its frame.
  — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
• Add a petticoat underneath to help give the skirt volume.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 9 Sep. 2022
• Pleated skirts, floaty organza, and a hot pink petticoat were all a part of his photo shoot wardrobe.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 13 Nov. 2020
• The March women wear corsets and bib dresses or petticoats and linen peasant blouses.
  — Vogue, 13 Aug. 2019
• She's added a frothy petticoat underneath to make the skirt even more cupcake-esque, and the whole thing fits her curves perfectly.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 6 May 2021
• The bodice featured a vintage style lace panel and the dress carried a net petticoat with lace trim underneath.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 21 May 2017
• Well, if this was the Victorian era, the girls would have been wearing an elaborate system of bloomers/a chemise, a corset, a hoop, a petticoat, a skirt, and a bodice.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2019
• The petticoat went firmly around my waist, and my blouse, tailor made to measure in India, closed in the front like a corset, its short sleeves tight around my underarms.
  — Meara Sharma, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• The answer suggested by Woolf and Ruhl is that the true costume here, more so than petticoats or frocks, is gender itself.
  — Jeremy D. Goodwin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• While there is no date labeled inside the petticoat, based on the silhouette, was likely worn around her wedding in 1840.
  — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 June 2019
• As a result, middle- and upper-class American women squeezed themselves into corsets and six to eight petticoats to fill out the shape of their skirts.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
• The costumes were enormous — big skirts, so much petticoat — and trying to cram them into a basement wasn’t working.
  — John Wenzel, The Know, 4 Aug. 2019
• The cast wore eyelet collars, long hemlines, lace-up boots, and basket bags in America; petticoats, corsets, lace gloves, and satin heels in France.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• In the 19th century, crinoline, a structured petticoat, was used to widen women's skirts to and make waists appear smaller.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 5 Jan. 2023
• The museum's costume seamstress fitted me with a floor-length cotton skirt, petticoat and long-sleeved blouse.
  — Tracee M. Herbaugh, courant.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• The museum’s costume seamstress fitted me with a floor-length cotton skirt, petticoat and long-sleeved blouse.
  — Tracee M. Herbaugh, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• In Connemara at the same time people still dressed boys and girls alike in red flannel petticoats until the age of twelve, a disguise used to trick those fairies who liked to steal boys in particular.
  — Longreads, 9 June 2018
• But despite her torn dress and bloody petticoat and bruises, Brianna refuses to speak of the trauma.
  — Wendy Naugle, Glamour, 7 Jan. 2019
• Little wonder that steampunk fans buy top hats and petticoats, adorn themselves in brass and glass, and flock to steampunk conventions.
  — Nicole Yunger Halpern, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2020
• As on the frontier, when predators never knew which woman might have a derringer in her petticoat, no one today knows when they will be recorded breaking the law.
  — Sebastian Junger, National Review, 13 July 2023
• On one occasion, Bickerdyke ordered privileged white ladies to drop their petticoats so the muslin could be used to bandage the unwrapped stumps of amputees.
  — Harold Holzer, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• Using more of the petticoat’s crin to create a hieratic hat, Magugu likens the piece to a Nefertiti headdress.
  — Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2022
• Royal scarlet velvet skirt in pannier effect with petticoat of cloth of gold embroidered in red lilies and gold pittas.
  — Melinda Morris, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024