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pantalettes

Variant of pantalets

or pantalettes

plural noun

  1. long, loose drawers frilled at the ankle and showing beneath the skirt, worn by women during the middle of the 19th cent.
  2. detachable ruffles for the legs of drawers

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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