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part•let
(pärt′lit),USA pronunciation n.
- Clothinga garment for the neck and shoulders, usually ruffled and having a collar, worn in the 16th century.
- Middle French patelette strip of cloth, band, literally, little paw, equivalent. to Old French pate paw + -lete -let
- unexplained variant of late Middle English patelet 1510–20