| 2H4 III.ii.154 | [Falstaff to Feeble] Wilt thou make as many holes in an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat? |
| 3H6 V.v.23 | [Richard to Queen] That you might still have worn the petticoat |
| AC I.ii.169 | [Enobarbus to Antony] your old smock brings forth a new petticoat [i.e. one woman leads to another] |
| AYL I.iii.15 | [Celia to Rosalind, of burs] If we walk not in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them |
| AYL II.iv.7 | [Rosalind to Celia] doublet-and-hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat |
| AYL III.ii.325 | [Rosalind as Ganymede to Orlando, of where she lives] here in the skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat |
| Oth IV.iii.72 | [Desdemona to Emilia] nor for gowns, petticoats |
| TNK V.ii.82 | [Gaoler's Daughter to Wooer] I have nothing / But this poor petticoat and two coarse smocks |
| TS II.i.5 | [Bianca to Katherina, of taking off things that offend Katherina] Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat |