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partlet

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part·let  (pärtlt)
n.
A collared, usually ruffled covering for the neck and shoulders, popular in 16th-century Europe and worn especially by women.
[Alteration of Middle English patelet, from Old French patelete, band of cloth, diminutive of pate, paw; see patois.]


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So Chanticleer began to build a little carriage of nutshells: and when it was finished, Partlet jumped into it and sat down, and bid Chanticleer harness himself to it and draw her home.
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One day it was Lady Partlet and her daughters whom Becky confronted as she was walking modestly on Boulogne pier, the cliffs of Albion shining in the distance across the deep blue sea.
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