plackets

Noun

placket (plural plackets)

1. A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
   • Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
2. (obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.
   • Is there no manners left among maids?VVill they
     vveare their plackets vvhere they ſhould bear their faces?c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (broadly, obsolete, slang) A woman.
   • […]: after this,the vengeance on the vvhole
     Camp,or rather,the bone-ach,for that,me thinkes is the
     curſe dependant on thoſe that vvarre for a placket.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
4. (obsolete) A woman's pocket.
5. (historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.
6. (historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.

   Synonyms:

   placcat, placcate