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pantilettes

pantilettes is the alternative form of pantalettes.

Meaning of pantalettes

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
  2. (historical, plural, plural-normally) A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.

Questions about pantilettes

What is pantilettes the alternative form of?
Pantilettes is the alternative form of pantalettes.

Words near pantilettes in the dictionary

  1. pantiled
  2. pantiler
  3. pantilers
  4. pantiles
  5. pantiless
  6. pantilettes
  7. pantiliner
  8. pantiliners
  9. pantiling
  10. pantin
  11. panting

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