Partlet

Word PARTLET
Character 7
Hyphenation part let
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Partlet"

What do we mean by partlet?

A collared, usually ruffled covering for the neck and shoulders, popular in Europe in the 1500s and worn especially by women. noun

A garment for the neck and shoulders, especially for women. noun

A hen. noun

A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but later by women alone; a ruff. noun

A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. noun

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The word "partlet" in example sentences

Counterbalancing this is the quasi-Egyptian inscrutability of her eyes; the mask-like ivory oval of her face; the light blue halo effect around her head; the shield-like rigidity of her bodice; and the chain-mail of her pearl and gold partlet. ❋ James Hall (2010)

Nathalie: One could make a good argument for the Elizabethan partlet being a proto-dickey. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Catherine Seyton presently exclaimed, “They were bearing the dishes across the court, marshalled by the Lady Lochleven herself, dressed out in her highest and stiffest ruff, with her partlet and sleeves of cyprus, and her huge old-fashioned farthingale of crimson velvet.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

The angels minister to the tyrants; or the gentle, hen-pecked husband cowers before the superior partlet. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His wife comely as a girl, hair down and beribboned, partlet lost—as if out maying. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

She moved in front of Fayth, adjusting the partlet that hid her modest bosom—as well as the rack of ribs and jutting collarbones stretching her translucent skin. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

Beneath the cloak her chest was covered with a partlet and flattened by her stays and bodice. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

With her partlet gone it peeked out the top of her bodice. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

A smudge of black marred her cheek and the ribbon on her partlet was undone. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

A partlet filled the square neck of her gown, not allowing him the tiniest glimpse of skin. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)

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