pantellets

Updated: June 10, 2025

"The beau takes it more leisurely. There are two epochs in a critter's life of intense happiness, first when he doffs the petticoats, pantellets, the hermaphrodite rig of a child, and mounts the jacket and trowsers of a boy; and the other is when that gives way to a 'long tail blue, and a beard. He is then a man.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Nature and Human Nature