Word: petticoats
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...yellow-haired London servant girl, said good night to her aunt at the foot of Houndsditch Road and set out for the home of her master, an elderly carpenter who lived near Bedlam Hospital. She was dressed in her holiday best, a purple gown shot with yellow, black quilted petticoat, blue stockings with red clocks, her waist was girded by a pair of ten-shilling stays. No one who knew her ever saw her in that costume again...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...
...Maastricht district the Government clashed with the Resistance forces. The Resistance groups resented the removal of the mayors they had installed in various towns, the restoration of Queen Wilhelmina's prewar officials. They talked loudly of "petticoat government" and the need for "economic democracy." "We took up arms against the Germans," they muttered, "and we can do it again...
...Women's hands were turning to many campus skills. More of them were working in laboratories than ever before. They were guiding more tracing pens over engineers' drawing boards. At Iowa State College the newspaper had its first woman editor. At Knox College ("Old Siwash") the petticoat rule of student publications, which began last year, continued...
...average, found that in one year the average woman now buys: one dress, two pairs of gloves, four ounces of knitting wool, two yards of material, one pair of knickers (underdrawers), no vests (undershirts), one-fifth of a nightdress, one-fourth of a suit, one-third of a petticoat...