placket hole

noun

A slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounplacket hole (plural placket holes)

plural placket holes

  1. historicalA slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside.First known use 18th c.

    ‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.

    1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 18
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    Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?

    1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, V.1
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