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pantalettes

pantalettes noun: a form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.

pantalettes: a form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg
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Noun

pantalettes pl (normally plural, singular pantalette)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-normally) A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
    • 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.1851, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, page 217
    • 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, […]1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii
  2. (historical, plural, plural-normally) A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.

pantalettes meaning in Tamil

pantalettes in Tamil

மகளிர் குறுங்காற்சட்டை, மிதிவண்டிக் காற்சட்டை

Forms of pantalettes

singularpantalette
alternative formpantalets
alternative formpantilettes

Origin of pantalettes

From pantal(oon) + -ette + -s.

Questions about pantalettes

What does pantalettes mean?
Pantalettes means a form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
What is pantalettes in Tamil?
Pantalettes in Tamil is மகளிர் குறுங்காற்சட்டை, மிதிவண்டிக் காற்சட்டை. See Pantalettes meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pantalettes?
Pantalettes is a noun.

Words near pantalettes in the dictionary

  1. Pantaleos
  2. pantalet
  3. pantalets
  4. pantalette
  5. pantaletted
  6. pantalettes
  7. pantalgia
  8. pantalon
  9. pantalone
  10. pantalones
  11. pantalons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pantalettes (page history and authors); pantalettes (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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