knickers

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  1. plural noun Long bloomers formerly worn as underwear by women and girls.
  2. plural noun Chiefly British Panties.
  3. plural noun Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee.

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  • You'll need to supply your own patterns for the knickers, slips/petticoats etc but these are still readily available from Kwik Sew if you are a fan of the generous coverage pin-up style 'panties' (that word amuses me for some reason).
  • Neat piles of chemises, knickers, and beautifully ironed petticoats. —  The Flemish Shop - Maigret 14 - Georges Simenon
  • His hands glided down the curve of her back and under her pantihose and knickers, his thumbs hooking over their waist-bands, smoothly drawing the flimsy garments past her hips, lower, lower, his fingers curling under her bottom, lifting her into a more flagrant, sexually charged fit with him. —  ThePlayboyBoss’sChosenBride
  • He was dressed in ragged knickers, a shirt of coarse material, and a pair of thin, scuffed shoes that reached up to his ankles. —  AHMM,September2008
  • He wiped his hands on his knickers, then with a spidery kind of feeling knew that he was being watched, caught at playing hookey from the eighth grade even before he looked up and saw the man. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 06 - December 1999
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