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Definition of Pantalet
1. n. One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.
Definition of Pantalet
1. Noun. One of the legs of the loose drawers formerly worn by children and women; especially the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pantalet
1. long underpants trimmed with ruffles [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantalet
Literary usage of Pantalet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Henry Irving's Impressions of America by Joseph Hatton (1884)
"(A pantalet.} But, oh! I was dry, And the starved dancers crushed, Till my
shirt-front was mushed. The champagne was dry — I cannot say why; ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"... of artists) to displaying too much of her ankle, he would assuredly make
manifest, beneath her upraised skirts, some antediluvian pantalet, bordered by ..."
3. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"As the years bring us into the century we find the pantalet plainly in evidence
in art. The Children of the A'ability, engraved in 1839, gives us many ..."
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