| 单词 | placket hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmasplacket hole placket hole n. now historical an opening in the outer skirt to give access to the pocket, purse, etc., within; cf. sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > parts of > pocket > opening for placket hole1762 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. i. 16 Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still, from the same association? 1898 Westm. Gaz. 17 Mar. 3/2 The concealing of the placket hole is quite an object just now. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 167/2 These pockets, tied on round the waist under the dress, were reached through the placket hole. 1973 Eighteenth-Cent. Stud. 6 502 Whether talking his way into Rousseau's presence or fumbling in placket holes in obscure alleys, he [sc. Boswell] is always an entertaining figure. < as lemmas |
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