pantalets
noun
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.
pantalettes
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a variation of
pantalets.
Example Sentences
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Each spring pretty girls in hoop skirts and pantalettes flounced over the pavements, rode about in carriages that quaintly messed up traffic.
From Time Magazine Archive
To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole tiny army of long, blue, ankle-hiding cottonade pantalettes and pantaloons tried to fulfil the injunction.
From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable
"Mam' Chloe says people ought to think little ladies haven't any legs,—that their feet are just pinned to the bottom of their pantalettes."
From When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood by Marion Harland
Dat three-name chicken wid de feathery legs Wha' 'merged f'om de ten dollar settin' of eggs, Is a lonesome bird an' I s'picion he frets 'Ca'ze he can't outgrow dem pantalettes.
From Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles by Ruth McEnery Stuart
