pantalettes means A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
From pantal(oon) + -ette + -s.
noun
- A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.“A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.”
- A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.