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 →

2) (old use, in fairy tales) A magic garment that does odd things in a tale. tree →

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 →
• The magic petticoat turned into drink. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «petticoat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.