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Placket   Listen
noun
Placket  n.  
1.
A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman. (Obs.)
2.
The opening or slit left in a petticoat or skirt for convenience in putting it on; called also placket hole.
3.
A woman's pocket.





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"Placket" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember my old black cashmere? I've been altering it till there's hardly a bit of the original body left; but now the skirt is adding to my troubles by getting shorter and shorter in front. It is now quite six inches off the ground, and instead of fastening it I have to pin the placket-hole, and then it falls nearly right. . . . Only three weeks longer, and then. . . But there, I won't look forward, because I know I am going to die, and all the accounting for it, and everything ...
— Muslin • George Moore
... shriek any counter-advice, and while she was gone to find Jack, her mistress brushed herself in some places, soaped herself in others, and considered her toilet made. When Janice returned she caught up a loose lock of hair, and put the placket-hole of her skirt square in the middle of Aunt Mary's back, and dared go no further. There was an air even about the back of Jack's influential aunt which forbade too much liberty to those dealing ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner


Words linked to "Placket" :   piece of cloth, skirt


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