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Definition of Partlet
1. n. A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.
Definition of Partlet
1. Noun. (obsolete) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but later by women alone; a ruff. ¹
2. Noun. A hen; so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Partlet
1. a woman's garment [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Partlet
Literary usage of Partlet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"... Hence partlet, a hen, on account of its ruffled feathers. In our modern
nomenclature we find few traces of this diminutive. The Paris Directory has many ..."
2. German Popular Stories and Fairy Tales, as Told by Gammer Grethel by Edgar Taylor (1872)
"How Chanticleer and partlet went to visit Mr. Korbes. Another day Chanticleer
and partlet wished to ride out together, so Chanticleer built a handsome ..."
3. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"Dame partlet the hen" occurs in Shakspeare; and the Pedlar in Hey wood's " Four
... A partlet was a neckerchief, gorget, or rail, say the old dictionaries; ..."
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