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Examples
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It was Judith's pantofles that ravished the eyes of Holofernes.
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Of the hinder part of their horse hides they make very fine sandals and pantofles.
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Of the hinder part of their horse hides they make very fine sandals and pantofles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The pantofles flew into his room, fell among his bottles, which were ranged with great care along the shelf, and, overthrowing them, covered the room with glass and rose-water.
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Casem soon after came out, and, having dressed himself, looked about for his pantofles; but nowhere could he find them.
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These matters of great Princes were played vpon lofty stages, & the actors thereof ware vpon their legges buskins of leather called _Cothurni_, and other solemne habits, & for a speciall preheminence did walke vpon those high corked shoes or pantofles, which now they call in Spaine & Italy _Shoppini_.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Hir shooes were of greene silke, and hir pantofles of gould imbrodered in a leafe woorke.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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See here the fatal cause of all the sufferings of Casem! these pantofles, which have at length brought ruin upon his head.
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With a loud voice, and tearing his beard, according to custom, he roared out, "Accursed pantofles, will you never cease persecuting the wretched Casem?"
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Furious against Casem (for who did not know Casem's pantofles?), they threw them in at the window, at the same time reviling him for the accident.
Gammerstang commented on the word pantofles
(pl. noun) - Slippers; to be upon one's pantofles, to stand upon one's dignity.
--A.V. Judges' Elizabethan Underworld, 1930
January 15, 2018