panty-belt

English

Alternative forms
  • pantie-belt

Noun

panty-belt (plural panty-belts)

  1. A piece of underwear for women combining panties with a suspender belt/garter belt. [from 20th c.]
    • 1977, Angela Carter, “Year of the Punk”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 150:
      The underwear counters of Marks and Spencer are crammed with brassières such as I have not seen since the late 1950s, bras with underwired cups, padded cups, boned supports. And girdles, pantie-belts, even things that look very much like corsets.
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