Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Long frilled drawers, worn by women and girls.
- A false or adjustable prolongation of the legs of women' drawers, renewed for neatness as is done with cuffs and the like: worn about 1840-50.
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- noun Alternative form of
pantalettes .
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Examples
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Roxy's dresses were short, and she wore straight, full "pantalets," that came down to the tops of her shoes; for Mrs. Thomas Gildersleeve would have thought it dreadful to allow her daughter to show the shape of her round little legs, as all children do nowadays.
Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land And Other Stories Sophie May Farman 1872
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The little feet peeping out beneath the ample folds of the wide pantalets were objects of greatest interest.
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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For staring down at her was the last person she wished to see her with her skirt bunched up around her neck and her pantalets exposed.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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He shifted between her legs, her skirt pushed up to her waist, leaving nothing but the thin layer of her pantalets to separate them.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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He shifted between her legs, her skirt pushed up to her waist, leaving nothing but the thin layer of her pantalets to separate them.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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“Going somewhere?” he interjected, his gaze shifting to her trunk, where a pair of lacy pantalets trailed from the open top.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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For staring down at her was the last person she wished to see her with her skirt bunched up around her neck and her pantalets exposed.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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He slid a hand down between their bodies and found the opening in her pantalets, slipping a single long finger inside to find her hot and wet.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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“Going somewhere?” he interjected, his gaze shifting to her trunk, where a pair of lacy pantalets trailed from the open top.
The Highlander’s Stolen Bride Melanie George 2006
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You see, when Queen Victoria was a little girl, dolls wore queer frocks and long pantalets and boy dolls wore funny frilled trousers and coats which it would almost make you laugh to look at.
The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006
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