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pantoffle

pantoffle 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 pantoffle

pluralpantoffles

Questions about pantoffle

What is pantoffle the alternative form of?
Pantoffle is the alternative form of pantofle.

Words near pantoffle in the dictionary

  1. pantodontan
  2. pantodontans
  3. pantodontid
  4. pantodontids
  5. pantodonts
  6. pantoffle
  7. pantoffles
  8. pantofle
  9. pantofles
  10. pantogamy
  11. pantogen

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