Meaning of pantalettes | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
   historical, plural, plural-only
2. A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.
   historical, plural, plural-only

Examples

“A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.”

“In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, […]”

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