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Meaning of placket hole | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.

historical

Examples

“Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?”
“‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

placki placode placoderm placodioid lichen placodiolic acid placodiomorph

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