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Petticoat

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A woman.

“There’s a petticoat will prove to be the cause of this.”—Hawley Smart: Struck Down, chap. xi.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Petit-Maître
Petit Serjeantry
Petitio Principii (A)
Petitioners and Abhorrers
Petrarch
Petrel
Petrified
Petrobrussians or Petrobrusians
Petronel
Petruchio
Petticoat
Petticoat Government
Petticoat and Gown
Petto
Petty Cury (Cambridge)
Peutingerian Map
Peveril of the Peak
Pewter
Phædria [wantonness]
Phaeton
Phalanx