"bepetticoated" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more bepetticoated [comparative], most bepetticoated [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} bepetticoated (comparative more bepetticoated, superlative most bepetticoated)
  1. Alternative form of be-petticoated Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: be-petticoated
    Sense id: en-bepetticoated-en-adj-Sx8z8HTQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1891 August 29, John and Jill, “Up and Down”, in Hampshire Telegraph & Sussex Chronicle, number 5738, page 11, column 5:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1920 February 6, “Change Unchanging”, in New York Tribune, volume LXXIX, number 26,745, New York, N.Y., page 12, column 3:",
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          "ref": "1937 December 4, Read Kendall, “Around and About in Hollywood”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LVII, Los Angeles, Calif., page 6:",
          "text": "A much bepetticoated twelfth century extra lady inadvertently stepping in front of a wind machine.",
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          "ref": "1947 April 10, Joe Doakes, “A Star Is Born”, in The Indian Citizen-Democrat, Atoka, Okla., column 7:",
          "text": "Mrs. for the past several weeks of an tendered the role of a snuff dipping, bepetticoated, stooped grandmother of a hundred and blooble.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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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