pantofle
English
Alternative forms
- pantable
- pantoble
Etymology
From Middle French pantoufle (“slipper”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpantəfl̩/, /panˈtɒfl̩/
Noun
pantofle (plural pantofles)
- (archaic, historical) A slipper. [from 15th c.]
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:
- And although she threatened to break his bow and arrows, to clip his wings, and whipped him besides on the bare buttocks with her pantofle, yet all would not serve […].
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Czech
Noun
pantofle
- plural of pantofel