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pantoufle

pantoufle 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 pantoufle

pluralpantoufles

Questions about pantoufle

What is pantoufle the alternative form of?
Pantoufle is the alternative form of pantofle.

Words near pantoufle in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantoufle (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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