Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Petticoat
Young, raw, and ignorant scholars believe every silk petticoat includes an angel.
Swift.—Correspondence. To the Rev. J. Kendall. (Roscoe’s Ed. Vol. II. Page 432.)
Angels in petticoats.
Peter Pindar.—(Wolcot.) The Remonstrance, Vol. III. An Ode.