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Partlet   Listen
noun
Partlet  n.  
1.
A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but later by women alone; a ruff. (Obs.)
2.
A hen; so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen."





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"Partlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... with gold, silks, pretious stones, and other rich and gorgeous ornaments, yet if her hair be not curiously set forth shee cannot seeme faire. But in my Fotis, her garments unbrast and unlaste increased her beauty, her haire hanged about her shoulders, and was dispersed abroad upon her partlet, and in every part of her necke, howbeit the greater part was trussed upon her pole with a lace. Then I unable to sustain the broiling heat that I was in, ran upon her and kissed the place where she had thus laid her haire. ...
— The Golden Asse • Lucius Apuleius


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