Meaning of bepetticoated | Babel Free

Examples

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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