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pantouffle

pantouffle 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 pantouffle

pluralpantouffles

Questions about pantouffle

What is pantouffle the alternative form of?
Pantouffle is the alternative form of pantofle.

Words near pantouffle in the dictionary

  1. pantothenol
  2. pantothere
  3. pantotheres
  4. pantotherian
  5. pantotherians
  6. pantouffle
  7. pantouffles
  8. pantoufle
  9. pantoufles
  10. pantoum
  11. pantoums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantouffle (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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