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Encyclopedia Britannica



PETTICOAT

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 336 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PETTICOAT , an underskirt, as
part
  of a woman's dress. Thi petticoat, i.e. "
petty
 -coat " or small coat, was originally a shor garment for the upper
part
  of the
body
  worn under an outer dress; in the Promptorium parvulorum the Latin equivalent is tunicula. It was both a man's and a woman's garment, and war in the first
case
  worn as a small coat under the doublet and by
women
  apparently as a
kind
  of chemise. It was however, early applied to the skirt worn by
women
  hangin from the waist, whether as the
principal
 
lower
  garment or a: an underskirt. In the middle of the 17th
century
  the wide breeches with heavy lace or embroidered ends worn by men were known as " petticoat breeches," a
term
  alsc applied to the loose canvas or oilskin overalls worn by fishermen.


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