Definitions for pantalet

pantalet pan·ta·lets

Spelling: [pan-tl-ets]
IPA: /ˌpæn tlˈɛts/

Pantalet is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in pantalet (aaelnptt).

Definitions for pantalet

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a pair of separate frilled or trimmed pieces for attaching to the legs of women's drawers.

Origin of pantalet

First recorded in 1825-35; pantal(oon) + -et + -s3

Examples for pantalet

I'm a dingy old shadow in a daguerreotype picture, in pantalets, cuddled up against my mother's hoopskirt.

I have three white hens—one top-knot, one plain, and one with pantalets.

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

It was a pretty picture, and would have been prettier, if they had shown bare little legs, instead of pantalets.

He orter stay at home an' wear Congress gaiters an' pantalets.

"It was her concert dress," said the woman, regarding aunt Corinne's pantalets with some contempt.

The frocks were made shorter, and the pantalets kept them company.

Then Victorian hoops which were succeeded by the Victorian bustles, pantalets, black velvet at throat and wrists, and lockets.

Their pantalets reached almost to their heels, and their gingham aprons were almost as long, and cut without a gore.

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

Word Value for pantalet
Scrable

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Words with friends

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