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petticoateries

petticoateries is the plural of petticoatery.

Meaning of petticoatery

Noun (1)

petticoatery (plural petticoateries)

  1. (archaic) A coterie of women or girls.
    • To do at least the first, it was resolved that we should visit the worthy gentleman en masse, to give him, the opportunity of exercising his hospitlity upon the present occasion, an acceptance of which, as he had an extremely agreeable wife, and some remarkably pretty cousins, we naturally...1840, Theodore Edward Hook, Fashionable fictions, page 23

Noun (2)

petticoatery (uncountable)

  1. Feminine activity and pursuits.
    • We have already at different times tried to deserve well of the world by remonstrating against the errors of petticoatery, and against certain freakish “sports” in the rosebud garden of girls.1872 August 3, “Drawing-Room Slang”, in Public Opinion, volume 22, number 567, page 146

Questions about petticoateries

What is petticoateries the plural of?
Petticoateries is the plural of petticoatery.

Words near petticoateries in the dictionary

  1. petticoat punishment
  2. petticoat punishments
  3. petticoat tail
  4. petticoat tails
  5. petticoated
  6. petticoateries
  7. petticoatery
  8. petticoating
  9. petticoatless
  10. petticoatlike
  11. petticoats

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