bepetticoated

bepetticoated (comparative more bepetticoated, superlative most bepetticoated)

1. Alternative form of be-petticoated
   • 1891 August 29, John and Jill, “Up and Down”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5738, page 11, column 5:

     As for cycling, no woman ought ever to indulge in that pastime unless she has a neat and suitable costume. It is at no time graceful, but in ordinary dress much bepetticoated it is simply ungainly.

   • 1920 February 6, “Change Unchanging”, in New York Tribune, volume LXXIX, number 26,745, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3:

     Older women of to-day, remembering their bepetticoated past, are appalled at the athletic freedom of the modernest feminine costume.

   • 1937 December 4, Read Kendall, “Around and About in Hollywood”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LVII, Los Angeles, Calif., page 6:

     A much bepetticoated twelfth century extra lady inadvertently stepping in front of a wind machine.

   • 1947 April 10, Joe Doakes, “A Star Is Born”, in The Indian Citizen-Democrat‎, Atoka, Okla., column 7:

     Mrs. for the past several weeks of an tendered the role of a snuff dipping, bepetticoated, stooped grandmother of a hundred and blooble.

   • 1957 January 27, “Lola Montes Dancers Appear Before Capacity Audience”, in The Idaho Sunday Statesman, 93rd year, number 186, Boise, Ida., page nine, column 5:

     From the checked cotton flounced and bepetticoated creations of the “Sevillanas,” a popular dance from old Seville, to the intense orange costume Miss Montes wore for “Danza V” by Granados, the raiment accurately interpreted the idea of the dance.