(UNDER-1 5 a.)

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1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, I. xv. 41. She … herselfe comes, having onely put on an under-petticoate.

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1670.  in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 21. Plaine black skirts,… and the under pettycoatt very richly laced.

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1716.  Lady Montagu, Lett. to C’tess of Bristol, 22 Aug. Like a poor town lady of pleasure … with a ragged under-petticoat.

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1762.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, V. vii. Her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats.

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  Hence Under-petticoated a.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, VII. lxxviii. 257. They were all slip-shoed; stockenless some; only under-petticoated all.

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