Pantalettes
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pantalettes is a noun meaning (historical) A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
Meaning
(historical) A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
More Meanings
- (historical) A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.
Example Sentences
A couple of shifts, some clean pantalettes, stockings, a spare pair of shoes: a suitcase is soon full.
In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, […]
A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
Word Forms
- pantalette
- pantalets
- pantilettes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pantalets, pantalet, pantaloons, pantaloon, panty, pettipants.
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