Meanings
plural pantofles · alternative pantable · alternative pantoble · alternative pantoffle · alternative pantophle · alternative pantouffle · alternative pantoufle · alternative pantuffle
- archaichistoricalA slipper.First known use 15th c.
And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue,[…].
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 356
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Frenchpantoufle“slipper”
- Middle Englishpantuflis pl
- Englishpantofle
From Middle English pantuflis pl, pantuiffillis pl, from Middle French pantoufle (“slipper”), of uncertain origin.
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pantofle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pantofle
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