petticoat

A girl’s or woman’s undergarment, worn under a dress or skirt, that is often full and trimmed with ruffles or lace.

Relating to or characteristic of women.

In electricity, on an insulator for outdoor service, a downward projecting mantle intended to shed the rain-water.

A short coat or garment worn by men under the long overcoat.

A skirt: formerly, the skirt of a woman’s dress or robe, frequently worn over a hoop or farthingale; now, an underskirt worn by women and children; also, in the plural, skirts worn by very young boys.

A woman; a female.

A garment worn by fishermen in warm weather, made of oilcloth or coarse canvas, very wide and descending to the calf of the leg, generally with an insertion for each leg, but sometimes like a woman’s petticoat, with no intersecting seam, and worn over the common dress.

In archery, the ground of a target, beyond the white. Also called

The depending skirt or inverted cup-shaped part of an insulator for supporting telegraph-lines, the function of which is to protect the stem from rain.