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pantalettes

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From pantal(oon) + -ette + -s.

noun pantalette · pantalets · pantilettes

historical, plural, plural normally A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg. A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
historical, plural, plural normally A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.

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@misc{pantalettes_2026,
  title = {pantalettes},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pantalettes},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}