petticoatless en · ADJ
Etymology
From petticoat + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a petticoat.
Though she consoled herself that the petticoatless performers, both male and female, were well clad underneath with "draws," she regretted the loss of "delicacy, modesty and diffidence" involved in the entire presentation.
1988, Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams: A Biography: