bepetticoated

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1. alternativeAlternative form of be-petticoated.

   A much bepetticoated twelfth century extra lady inadvertently stepping in front of a wind machine.

   1937 December 4, Read Kendall, “Around and About in Hollywood”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LVII, Los Angeles, Calif., page 6

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   As for cycling, no woman ought ever to indulge in that pastime unless she has a neat and suitable costume. It is at no time graceful, but in ordinary dress much bepetticoated it is simply ungainly.

   1891 August 29, John and Jill, “Up and Down”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5738, page 11, column 5

   Older women of to-day, remembering their bepetticoated past, are appalled at the athletic freedom of the modernest feminine costume.

   1920 February 6, “Change Unchanging”, in New York Tribune, volume LXXIX, number 26,745, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3

   Mrs. for the past several weeks of an tendered the role of a snuff dipping, bepetticoated, stooped grandmother of a hundred and blooble.

   1947 April 10, Joe Doakes, “A Star Is Born”, in The Indian Citizen-Democrat, Atoka, Okla., column 7

   From the checked cotton flounced and bepetticoated creations of the “Sevillanas,” a popular dance from old Seville, to the intense orange costume Miss Montes wore for “Danza V” by Granados, the raiment accurately interpreted the idea of the dance.

   1957 January 27, “Lola Montes Dancers Appear Before Capacity Audience”, in The Idaho Sunday Statesman, 93rd year, number 186, Boise, Ida., page nine, column 5