pantalettes

noun

1. (historical, plural, plural-normally)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.”

   “In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, […]”

   “A couple of shifts, some clean pantalettes, stockings, a spare pair of shoes: a suitcase is soon full.”

2. (historical, plural, plural-normally)A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.