ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1761. Lond. Chron., IX. June 16–8, 581/3. But we are not to suffer the artificial gracefulness of the long-robed courtesy to deluge us; for we can then only judge of the force of the argument, when we happen to see a female rope-dancer perform the unpetticoated action.
1837. New-York Mirror, 3 June, 385/2. The only really wo-begone countenances on board the vessel, were those of certain scarce unpetticoated youngsters, flitting about the decks in despair, at the cruel separation from a flame of three weeks.
1846. Browning, Lett. (1899), II. 321. Flush [the dog] hates all unpetticoated people.
1848. A. Herbert, in Todd, Irish Nennius, Notes p. lvii. The unpetticoated government of their Milesian wives.
