part·let 
(pärtlĭt)
(pärtlĭt)n.
A collared, usually ruffled covering for the neck and shoulders, popular in Europe in the 1500s and worn especially by women.
[Alteration of Middle English patelet, from Old French patelete, band of cloth, diminutive of pate, paw; see PATOIS.]
partletc. 1560-1570 portrait of Philippine Welser (1527-1580), wife of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria (1529-1595)