We can also thank the Victorians for the word “dressing” as it relates to bread and other food items packed into the cavity of a bird.
Because there is no rude connotation to the phrase “get dressed”. :)
The piano legs in Victorian parlors were draped in velvet skirts so there wouldn’t be naked legs in the house.
Books in the bookcase had to be segregated; male authors on one shelf, female authors on the other.
The bovine “bull” was strictly verboten; it was referred to as a `male cow’, `gentleman cow’, or `cow critter”.
I go back far enough to have heard an old geezer complain, “Where were girls in miniskirts when _I_ needed them!?”