pantalets

or pan·ta·lettes

[ pan-tl-ets ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

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.
a pair of separate frilled or trimmed pieces for attaching to the legs of women's drawers.

pantalets

/ ˌpæntəˈlɛts /

long drawers, usually trimmed with ruffles, extending below the skirts: worn during the early and mid 19th century
a pair of ruffles for the ends of such drawers

First recorded in 1825–35; pantal(oon) + -et + -s ³

C19: diminutive of pantaloons

Off came pantalets, waist and undercoverings, through the pure, cold water he waded.

“It looks to me as if she were trying to revive the fashion of pantalets,” suggested Priscilla.

I'm not going to dress up in Sunday best manners because you wear ruffled pantalets.

They were wearing pantalets shorter now, and she noticed that Lily wore hers very short.

The portrait it contained had been banished to the attic while her three eldest sisters were still in Wellington pantalets.

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