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partlet2 Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 6–7 partelet, 6–8 partlet, (6 -lett(e, pertelet).
[app. a corrupted form of patelet, patlet.]
An article of apparel worn about the neck and upper part of the chest, chiefly by women: orig. a neckerchief of linen or the like; a collar or ruff; also, a kind of habit-shirt.
1519Harl. MS. 2284 lf. 42 b, x yerdes of russet satten for a Jaquet & a partelet for the kinges grace. 1526Lanc. Wills I. 13 To Emme my doughter myne other bonett and a partlett. 1526Tindale Acts xix. 12 From his body were brought unto the sicke napkyns and partlettes. 1528― Obed. Chr. Man Wks. (1573) 131 Paul sent his pertelet or jerkyn to the sicke, and healed them also. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Vn collet, ou gorgias de quoy les femmes couvrent leurs poictrines, a partlet. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1629) 274 Parthenia..tearing off her linnen sleeves and partlet to serve about his wounds. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 364 To see Lazarus come forth bound about with his partlets. 1658Phillips, Partlet, a word used in some old Statutes, signifying the loose collar of a dublet to be set on or taken off by it self without the bodies, also a womans neckercheif. 1786Cumberland Observer III. No. 65. 44 A close-bellied doublet coming down with a peake behind as far as the crupper, and cut off before by the breastbone like a partlet or neckercher. [1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 245. 1843 Lytton Last Bar. i. iv, She turned aside, and took off the partelet of lawn.]
attrib. or Comb.1597–8Bp. Hall Sat. iv. vi. 9 Tyr'd with pinned ruffs, and fans, and partlet strips. 1641Dial. Rattle-h. & Round-h. 8 Let Lawn-sleeves serve instead of Buffe, And for your Arms your partled ruffe. |