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placket holes

placket holes is the plural of placket hole.

Meaning of placket hole

Noun

placket hole (plural placket holes)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about placket holes

What is placket holes the plural of?
Placket holes is the plural of placket hole.

Words near placket holes in the dictionary

  1. plackarts
  2. Placke
  3. Plackes
  4. placket
  5. placket hole
  6. placket holes
  7. plackets
  8. placki
  9. plackless
  10. placks
  11. plackstrin

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