Pantalettes
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg. historical, plural, plural-only
"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."
- 2 A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers. historical, plural, plural-only
Example
More examples"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."
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