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† patlet Obs.
Also 5 patelet, 6 patlett, -led, Sc. paitlet(t, -lat, 8 -lich.
[app. a. OF. patelette ‘band of stuff’ (Godef.), patelette de la testiere ‘the head-dag, the broad peece of leather that runnes ouer-crosse, or through, the top of a headstall’ (Cotgr.); dim. of patte paw, flap. The sense-history is obscure.]
An article of attire; the same as partlet2 (of which it was the original form).
a1500Henryson Garment gude Ladeis 27 Hir patelet of gude pansing. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 64 Sic skaith and scorne, so mony paitlattis worne Within this land was nevir hard nor sene. 1522Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 153 A patlett of velvett. Ibid. 154 My velvett jacket, to make his childer patlettes and cuyffes. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 2100, I plucked her by the patlet. 1585Burgh Rec. Edin. (Rec. Soc.) IV. 445 Cumand to ony nichtbouris howssis to offer to thair seruands any clayth, paytlets, slevis, gownis. 1786Har'st Rig lxxxvi. (1801) 28 They sair bemane some paitlich gown. |