Petticoat
in example sentence
They begged a
petticoat
and hood of the landlady, leaving her in pledge a new cassock of the curate's; and the barber made a beard out of a grey-brown or red ox-tail in which the landlord used to stick his comb.
More example sentences with word petticoat
While I recently gave OPERATION
PETTICOAT
a positive review, I really didn't like this film even though it had so many similarities.
There was something so exotic and mysterious about it, especially when compared to the usual American re-runs
(Petticoat
Junction, Green Acres... you get the idea).
As to the Pierrons, they always had money; but in order to appear as needy as the others, for fear of loans, they got their supplies on credit from Maigrat, who would have thrown his shop at Pierronne if she had held out her
petticoat
to him.
Estelle had gone to sleep, and her face had slipped down into the woollen petticoat; the enormous breast was hanging free and naked like the udder of a great cow.
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