pantalet

Definitions

noun Long underpants trimmed with ruffles extending below the skirt, worn by women in the mid-1800s.
noun A frill attached to the leg of underpants.

noun One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; a pant leg; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

noun One of the legs of the loose drawers formerly worn by children and women; especially the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece.

[From pantaloon.]

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George Cruikshank called upon, for instance, to depict a lady fording a puddle on a rainy day, and were he averse (for he is the modestest of artists) to displaying too much of her ankle, he would assuredly make manifest, beneath her upraised skirts, some antediluvian pantalet, bordered by a pre-Adamite frill.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
Here, too, had passed cake receipts and pantalet patterns, bits of yeast-cake and preserving-kettles.

In Simpkinsville : character tales, 1897
My pantalet hung by a few threads, and as I wanted a rag to wash my earthens with, I tore it off.

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866
The bottom of one pantalet was entirely torn off, and the other rolled nearly to the knee disclosing

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866
a graceful shape in spite of the broad tucks in sleeve, skirt and pantalet, which kept it from draggling over her hands or on the floor,

Old Caravan Days Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874
"Oh, I don't know unless it's because he makes such nice popple whistles!" and as if the argument were conclusive, Jenny unrolled her pantalet, and tried to wipe some of the mud from her dress, at the same time glancing towards her sister, who at some little distance was reclining against an old oak tree, and poring intently over "Fairy

The English Orphans Mary Jane Holmes 1866