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Definition of Pantable
1. n. See Pantofle.
Definition of Pantable
1. a slipper [n -S] - See also: slipper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantable
Literary usage of Pantable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Sports: Or, Companion to the Field, the Forest, and the by Harry Harewood (1835)
"PANTON, or pantable SHOE. An old invention contrived for receiving narrow and
hoof-bound heels. Panton shoes are described by Guil- let to be proper for ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"pantable/s. A sort of high shoe, or slipper ; perhaps corrupted from ...
Chafing and swearing by the pantable of Pallace and Mich other oathes as his ..."
3. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"By all the tricks that pages pass in time of Parliament as swearing to the
pantable, crowning with custards, paper whiffs to the sleeper's noses, ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1876)
"... pantable,1 'tis pretty! [From behind. [BLANCA runs in betwcen. I'll brush
their coats, if once it come to fighting. Fernando's of our side. ..."