Meanings
nounFrench knickers pl (plural only)
- UKpluralplural onlyA type of full-fitting women's underwear and/or sleepwear.
For this reason, any woman would much, much rather receive a pair of silk French knickers trimmed with antique lace that require handwashing in Evian water and which she will never actually wear than the three-pack of tummy-control pants from M&S that she desperately needs.
2004 December 3, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Present perfect”, in The Guardian
Translations
French culotte-short, culotte flottante
- culotte-shorttype of underwear
- culotte flottantetype of underwear
- shortytype of underwear
Russian панталончики
- панталончики (pantalončiki)type of underwear
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