pantoufle

plural pantoufles

1. alternativeAlternative form of pantofle.

   She had got out of bed and slipped on her pantoufles only, and the night was cold.

   1893, Sarah Grand, chapter XIX, in The Heavenly Twins, New York, N.Y.: The Cassell Publishing Co. […], page 679

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   But I would thou ſhouldſt know, that if he ſhould come in proper perſon to Rome, the Pope would not entertaine him, except he would ſubmit himſelfe and kiſſe his pantoufle.

   1607, Henrie Stephen [i.e., Henri Estienne], translated by R[ichard] C[arew], A World of Wonders: or An Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders: or A Preparatiue Treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, page 203

   And he ordered the Captain of the Swiſs guards to tell Stouppe, that he had heard of me, and would give me a private audience abed, to ſave me from the ceremony of the Pantoufle.

   a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book IV. Of the Reign of King James II.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 661

   In the Day I wait on my Lady when ſhe eats, / Carry her Pantoufles, bear up her Train; / Sing her aſleep at Night, and, when ſhe pleaſes, / I am her Bedfellow.

   1779 [1624], Philip Massinger, “The Renegado”, in John Monck Mason, editor, The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger Complete, in Four Volumes. […], volume II, London: […] T. Davies, […]; T. Payne and Son, […]; L. Davis, […], act III, scene IV, page 50

   Lady, I have been too long the vassal of a pantoufle, and the slave of a silver whistle.

   1820, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 124