underskirts in English
noun
1
a skirt worn under another; a petticoat.
It was made of ivory silk with a cotton underskirt and a laced overskirt embroidered with delicate pink flowers.
noun
half-slippetticoat
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1. Lucy Meserve Smith wrote that women “stripped off their petticoats [large underskirts], stockings, and every thing they could spare, right there in the Tabernacle, and piled [them] into the wagons.”
2. Lucy Meserve Smith recorded that the women took off their warm underskirts and stockings right there in the tabernacle and piled them into wagons to send to the freezing pioneers.