pantalettes
- a variation of pantalets.
Example Sentences
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To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Genevieve wore a blue frock and white apron, neat stockings and slippers, and pantalettes with broad ruffles.
From The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land by Higgins, Charlotte M.
We were driving through beautiful scenery--orange groves and tall palm trees with their dead branches drooping like old-fashioned pantalettes, and mountains in the background--but none of us paid much attention to it.
From Four and Twenty Beds by Vogel, Nancy
This hair on its legs did look exactly like the pantalettes you see in pictures of little girls back in the days before the Civil War.
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Eaton, Walter Prichard
