Lexicographical Neighbors of Partlets
Literary usage of Partlets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as by George Lillie Craik, Charles McFarlane (1839)
"... was now enveloped in a sort of habit-shir^ with a high collar and small ruff,
called a parti In the inventories of the period we meet ivj " partlets of ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1868)
"The high collars with little ruffs, often seen in the portraits of this time,
are described as set on capes, and are called " partlets," because they are ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"... women have many lets, And they be masked in many nets ; As frontlets, fillets,
partlets, and bracelets ; And then their bonnets and their ..."
4. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the by Frederick William Fairholt (1860)
"... women have many lets, And they be masked in many nete; As frontlets, fillets,
partlets, and bracelets; And then their bonnets and their ..."
5. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1870)
"To which the pedlar replies— Forsooth, women have many lets, And they be masked
in many nets, As frontlets, fillets, partlets, and bracelets, And then their ..."
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