Partlet /pärtˈlit/

1. A proper name for a hen, from Chaucer's Pertelote in the Nun's Priest's Tale
2. Sometimes applied to a woman

partlet /pärtˈlit/ (obsolete)

1. Orig a collar or ruff
2. A woman's covering for the upper breast, neck and shoulders, often finished with a ruff or frill
3. A kind of shirt

• hitting
• Hittite
• hitty-missy
• hit upon
• hit wicket
• HIV
• hive
• hive bee
• hive bees
• hived
• hive-honey
• hiveless
• hivelike
• hive-nest
• hive-nests
• hive off
• hive-off
• hiver
• hivers
• hives
• hiveward
• hivewards
• hiving
• HIV positive
• hiya