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Definition of Pantoffles
1. pantoffle [n] - See also: pantoffle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantoffles
Literary usage of Pantoffles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"Pearl-coloured pantoffles," are mentioned as worn by ladies in ... The same
author, in his " City Madam," notes " rich pantoffles in ostentation shown. ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"... thin-soled shoes], and fine pantoffles [slippers or pattens] which bear them
up a finger or two from the ground; whereof some he of white leather, ..."
3. A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney by Henry Richard Fox Bourne (1862)
"First, for two pair of pantoffles and two pair of shoes for yourself . ...
Item, for one pair of white shoes and one pair of pantoffles for yourself ..."
4. The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the by Shuttleworth family, John Harland (1858)
"... and laid on with gold, silver and such like To go abroad in them [pantoffles
and slippers] as they are now used altogether, is rather a let or hindrance ..."
5. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the by Frederick William Fairholt (1860)
"Pearl-coloured pantoffles " are mentioned as worn by ladies in ... The same
author, in his City Madam, notes " rich pantoffles in ostentation worn. ..."
6. Stafford in Olden Times: Being a Reprint of Articles Published in "The by John Law Cherry (1890)
"... slippers, or pantoffles, or any part of them of English leather, wet curried (other
than Bearskins, Calves skins, or Goat skins), but of leather well ..."
7. Europa's Fairy Book by Joseph Jacobs (1916)
"first suggested by Balzac that Perrault's pantoffles de verre was due to his
misunderstanding of the ..."
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