pantalets

American  

[pan-tl-ets] / ˌpæn tlˈɛts /

Or pantalettes

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. Sometimes pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century.

2. a pair of separate frilled or trimmed pieces for attaching to the legs of women's drawers.

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pantalets British  

/ ˌpæntəˈlɛts /

plural noun

1. long drawers, usually trimmed with ruffles, extending below the skirts: worn during the early and mid 19th century

2. a pair of ruffles for the ends of such drawers

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Other Word Forms

• pantaletted adjective

Etymology

Origin of pantalets

First recorded in 1825–35; pantal(oon) + -et + -s ³

Example Sentences

Mendelsohn was horrified to reexamine her participation in the tradition, monogrammed pantalets and all.

From Washington Post

He also took it one step further, asking Atlantans to dress up for the occasion: “Mayor Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman and maid to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every Atlanta male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers. He also requested citizens not to tear off the clothes of visiting movie stars, as happened in Kansas at the premiere of Dodge City.”

From Time

Here are china angels in blue frocks, with pink sleeves and saffron pantalets, pink-tipped plumes, and even pink bows in their goldy hair.

From Project Gutenberg

Pantalets, pan-ta-lets′, n.pl. long frilled drawers, once worn by women and children: a removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.

From Project Gutenberg

The natural lines have been broken, perverted, and caricatured by balloon sleeves, huge farthingales, or paniers like a jennet's pack-saddles, the incredible Botocudo ideal of the bustle, corsets like hour-glasses, concentric hoops about the legs, with pantalets coquetting inanely at the ankles—the almost impossible facts of fashion.

From Project Gutenberg