petticoatery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A coterie of women or girls.

   • Immediately the whole coterie (which, in this instance, is an undiluted petticoatery) assembles for consultation.
   • Diplomacy kept its eye upon him ; he was never quite out of the calculations of European statecraft, of foreign offices and embassies, and chancelleries and drawing-rooms, and coteries and petticoateries.
2. 2

   Feminine activity and pursuits.

   • We have already at different times tried to deserve well of the world by remonstrating against the errors of petticoatery, and against certain freakish “sports” in the rosebud garden of girls.
   • Ergo, we are wrong to encourage conformity, busy-work, tea-timing diplomatic petticoatery — wrapping bandages against the last day, as it were — and instead should urge those who can to be themselves.

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