placket hole
placket hole noun: a slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.
Noun
placket hole (plural placket holes)
- A slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.
- Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, V.1
- ‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 18
Forms of placket hole
| plural | placket holes |
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Questions about placket hole
- What does placket hole mean?
- Placket hole means a slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.
- What part of speech is placket hole?
- Placket hole is a noun.
- What is the plural of placket hole?
- The plural of placket hole is placket holes.
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