panty-belt

noun

A piece of underwear for women combining panties with a suspender belt or garter belt.

First used 20th c.

Meanings

nounpanty-belt (plural panty-belts)

plural panty-belts · alternative pantie-belt

  1. A piece of underwear for women combining panties with a suspender belt or garter belt.First known use 20th c.

    The underwear counters of Marks and Spencer are crammed with brassières such as I have not seen since the late 1950s, bras with underwired cups, padded cups, boned supports. And girdles, pantie-belts, even things that look very much like corsets.

    1977, Angela Carter, “Year of the Punk”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 150
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