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pantable

pantable is the alternative form of pantofle.

Meaning of pantofle

Noun

pantofle (plural pantofles)

  1. (archaic, historical) A slipper.
    • And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue,[…].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […]...

Forms of pantable

pluralpantables

Questions about pantable

What is pantable the alternative form of?
Pantable is the alternative form of pantofle.

Words near pantable in the dictionary

  1. pant-legs
  2. pant-wetting
  3. pant-wettingly
  4. panta-
  5. Pantabangan
  6. pantable
  7. pantables
  8. pantacle
  9. pantacles
  10. pantagamous
  11. pantagamy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantable (page history and authors); pantofle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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