placket hole

English

Noun

placket hole (plural placket holes)

  1. (now historical) A slit in a woman's outer skirt allowing access to pockets, items etc. kept inside. [from 18th c.]
    • 1762, Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, V.1:
      Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association?
    • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 18:
      ‘What is loathsome is all your fumbling in placket-holes and polysyllabic Justification by Love.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.