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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETTICOAT , an underskirt, as See also:

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

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