petticoated

Definitions

Examples

• Petticoated porters thrust metal numbers at us so that we may be able to recognise them again and reclaim our luggage safely.

• Hygiene will attract the sanitarian, the nurse, the hotel manager, trousered or petticoated.

• Your own people will not own you, and no tribe of redmen would have you in their wigwams; you skulk among petticoated warriors.

• But when she walks, the full-petticoated peasant woman, then the red goes flash-flash-flash, like a bird showing its colours.

• A little globe, petticoated in soft silk, gave a yellow light to the walls and floor.