Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantables
Literary usage of Pantables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Then comes a page : the saucy jacket-wearer STOOD UPON s pantables with me, ...
Is now, forsooth, so proud, what else! And STANDS SO ON HER pantables. ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"pantables bee higher ivi th corke . . . feete . . . higher in the ... Dilke quotes
Massinger"s City-Madam ' have ready His cap and pantables. ..."
3. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1858)
"The phrase, " to stand upon one's pantables," meant upon one's honour. ...
In the Accounts, in July 1612, six pair of shoes and a pair of pantables to my ..."
4. The Rights of Sovereigns and Subjects by Paolo Sarpi, Stephen Whatley (1722)
"His pantables were indeed taken off by the judges order, and carry'd to the
tribunal; which gave birth to a faying that is remembered to this " day, viz,, ..."
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