petticoat

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• Petticoat

  ·noun A loose under-garment worn by women, and covering the body below the waist. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Petticoat Lane

  See Middlesex Street. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Petticoat Square

  At the western end of Nightingale Place, west of Middlesex Street. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-O...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• petticoat hold

  One who has an estate during his wife's life, called the apron-string hold. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• petticoat pensioner

  One kept by a woman forsecret services. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• petticoat trowsers

  A kind of kilt formerly worn by seamen in general, but latterly principally by fishermen. (See galli...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Ball Court, Petticoat Lane

  Out of Petticoat Lane (Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Crown Alley, Petticoat Lane

  South-west out of Petticoat Lane (Middlesex Street). In Portsoken Ward (Boyle, 1799). Earliest ment...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Garden Court, Petticoat Lane

  See Garden Place, Hutchison Avenue and Seven Step Alley. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Inkhorne Court, Petticoat Lane

  See Petticoat Square. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.