placket-hole

With all that noise over my head, I wouldn't know a Dutch neck from a placket-hole.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

Repeated rings at the bell at last brought out the woman in charge, her arms covered with soap-suds, and gown drawn through a placket-hole.

Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

The open placket-hole and sagging waist-band, sketched in No. 45, is an all too familiar sight that advertises the fact that too few women take even a cursory look at their backs.

What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

She is now too much absorbed in the war to waste time at her dressmakers or even to care whether her placket-hole is open or not.

The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

It would save us hours of anxiety could we look beyond her smiling face to her tail peeping out saucily from a placket-hole.

The Angel and the Author, and others 1893

It is now quite six inches off the ground, and instead of fastening it I have to pin the placket-hole, and then it falls nearly right ....

Muslin 1892

One was fastened, as usual, round the waist; the masked head was passed through the placket-hole of the other.

The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

Karikatur_, Fig. 92), represents an elegant young lady in a rococo garden-bower; she has been reading a book she has now just dropped, together with her sunshade; she leans languorously back, and her hand begins to find its way through her placket-hole.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

When Janice returned she caught up a loose lock of hair, and put the placket-hole of her skirt square in the middle of Aunt Mary’s back, and dared go no further.

The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary Anne Warner 1891