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单词 pantalettes
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pantalettespantaletsn.

Brit. /ˌpantəˈlɛts/, U.S. /ˌpæn(t)lˈɛts/, /ˌpæn(t)əˈlɛts/
Forms:

α. (In plural form) 1800s– pantalets (now chiefly U.S.), 1800s– pantalettes.

β. (In singular form) 1800s– pantalette, 1900s– pantelette.

Origin: Formed wtihin English, by derivation. Etymons: pantaloon n., -ette suffix, -s.
Etymology: < pantal- (in pantaloon n.) + -ette suffix + -s, plural ending.
Originally U.S.
I. In plural form.
1. Long, loose pants with a frill or ruffle at the bottom of each leg, showing beneath a skirt and worn by young girls in the early to mid 19th cent.; (later also) trousers or knickerbockers worn by women under skirts, esp. for active pursuits such as cycling. Now chiefly historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > frilled
pantaloon1814
trousers1817
pantalettes1834
pantalettes1922
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > for cycling, etc.
pantaloon1814
pants1851
trouserettes1857
pantalettes1881
rationals1889
bloomer1895
pantalettes1897
1834 Knickerbocker 4 117 In the first place, in their blushing girlhood, they assume the pantalettes, or little pantaloons.
1838 Southern Literary Messenger 4 28/1 Two pretty sisters, in pantalettes, waited on table.
1857 C. Reade Course True Love II. ii. 133 The company..were very severe on this [Bloomer] costume, and proceeded upwards from the pantalettes to the morals of the inventor.
1881 in Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horsebk. v. 316 [Mexican horsewomen], clad in loose Turkish pantalettes tucked into the riding-boots of soft yellow leather.
1887 J. Ashby-Sterry Song of School-girls in Lazy Minstrel 229 Come the dainty dimpled pets, With their tresses all in nets, And their peeping pantalettes Just in view.
1903 A. Bierce Coll. Wks. (1909) IV. 34 She may wear pantalettes and an air of repose—But my lord of the future will talk through his nose.
1931 D. B. Flanagan Dark Certainty iii. 37 She wore flowered dresses And lace pantalettes; Her kind of caresses Youth never forgets.
1975 ‘R. Player’ Let's talk of Graves iii. 78 Little girls in pantalettes bowled their hoops.
2. Chiefly U.S. In extended use. Ruffles used to cover furniture legs; (also) decorative paper frills adorning joints of meat when brought to the table. Now historical and rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > frill for chop
papillote1818
pantalettes1846
frill1866
panties1936
1846 T. B. Thorpe Myst. of Backwoods 21 Said traveller stated he had seen a piano somewhere in New England with pantalettes on.
1853 B. F. Taylor Jan. & June 85 Hens with Camwood-colored pantalettes.
1883 Harper's Mag. July 246/1 The paper pantalets which adorn the broiled lamb chop.
1952 Far Eastern Q. 11 217 A Victorian lady was only at ease when the functional nakedness of her furniture was muffled by fringes, bows, throws, antimacassara, and pantalettes.
II. In singular form.
3. = sense 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > for cycling, etc.
pantaloon1814
pants1851
trouserettes1857
pantalettes1881
rationals1889
bloomer1895
pantalettes1897
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose > frilled
pantaloon1814
trousers1817
pantalettes1834
pantalettes1922
1897 Daily News 30 Aug. 5/7 There are very pretty possibilities with a short skirt and pantalette [for the bicycle].
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 506 The scanty, daringly short skirt, riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantelette, is a potent weapon.
1997 Re: Porn in alt.mens-rights (Usenet newsgroup) 20 Oct. She hikes up her skirt so that a bit of her ankle and pantalette is in the man's view.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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