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# petticoat

«petticoat» in Mova's school dictionary: **A skirt worn under a dress, long ago** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural petticoats)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A skirt worn under a dress, long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petticoat/#m1)

2) (old use, in fairy tales) A magic garment that does odd things in a tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petticoat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a magic petticoat is let down or turned into something else

### examples

- She wore a white petticoat under her blue dress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petticoat/#x1)
- The magic petticoat turned into drink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petticoat/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «petticoat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/petticoat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.