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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Similarly, a hangman named Derrick is immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hartsfield urged every Atlanta woman to put on hoop skirts and pantalets, appealed to every male to don tight trousers and a beaver, sprout a goatee, sideburns and Kentucky colonel whiskers.

From Time Magazine Archive

They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Typically, girls younger than fourteen wore short dresses, pantalets, and stockings.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock