pantoufle

English

Noun

pantoufle (plural pantoufles)

1. Alternative form of pantofle.
   • 1607, Henrie Stephen [i.e., Henri Estienne], translated by R[ichard] C[arew], A World of Wonders: or An Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders: or A Preparatiue Treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, page 203:

     But I would thou ſhouldſt know, that if he ſhould come in proper perſon to Rome, the Pope would not entertaine him, except he would ſubmit himſelfe and kiſſe his pantoufle.

   • a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, “Book IV. Of the Reign of King James II.”, in [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], editor, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume I, London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC, page 661:

     And he ordered the Captain of the Swiſs guards to tell Stouppe, that he had heard of me, and would give me a private audience abed, to ſave me from the ceremony of the Pantoufle.

   • 1779 [1624], Philip Massinger, “The Renegado”, in John Monck Mason, editor, The Dramatick Works of Philip Massinger Complete, in Four Volumes. […], volume II, London: […] T. Davies, […]; T. Payne and Son, […]; L. Davis, […], act III, scene IV, page 50:

     In the Day I wait on my Lady when ſhe eats, / Carry her Pantoufles, bear up her Train; / Sing her aſleep at Night, and, when ſhe pleaſes, / I am her Bedfellow.

   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter V, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 124:

     Lady, I have been too long the vassal of a pantoufle, and the slave of a silver whistle.

   • 1893, Sarah Grand, chapter XIX, in The Heavenly Twins, New York, N.Y.: The Cassell Publishing Co. […], page 679:

     She had got out of bed and slipped on her pantoufles only, and the night was cold.

French

Alternative forms

• pantouffle (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French pantofle, pantophle, pantouffle, pantoufle, pantouphle, of unclear origin, often considered to be from Italian pantofola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.tufl/

• Audio:

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Noun

pantoufle f (plural pantoufles)

1. slipper, house slipper (footwear)
2. (archaic) horseshoe

Derived terms

• pantouflard
• pantouflier

Descendants

• → Danish: tøffel (“slipper”)
• → Norwegian: tøffel
• → Swedish: toffel (“slipper”)
• → Latvian: tupele

Further reading

• “pantoufle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• pantofle, pantophle, pantouffle, pantouphle

Etymology

Of unclear origin, often considered to be from Italian pantofola.

Noun

pantoufle f (plural pantoufles)

1. slipper
   • 1606, Orasius Tubero [pseudonym; François de La Mothe Le Vayer], Quatre dialogues faits à l’imitation des anciens, Frankfurt: Iean Sarius, page 42:

     Prendre touſiours le haut du paué, regarder par deſſus l’eſpaule, ne ſalüer qu’à demy, c’eſt eſtre inſupportablemẽt ſuperbe; ne ſe laiſſer aborder qu’à trauers les picques & les halebardes, cheminer ſur la teſte des hommes, ſe faire porter ſur leurs eſpaules, leur faire baiſer ſa pantoufle, ce ſont actions pontificales, & dignes d’vne majeſté royale, inuenit aliquid infra genua quo libertatem detruderet, dit Seneque parlant de Ceſar.

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Descendants

• French: pantoufle, pantouffle (obsolete)
  • → Danish: tøffel (“slipper”)
  • → Norwegian: tøffel
  • → Swedish: toffel (“slipper”)
  • → Latvian: tupele
• → Middle English: pantuflis pl, pantuiffillis pl
  • English: pantofle, pantable, pantoble, pantoffle, pantophle, pantouffle, pantoufle, pantuffle
• → Middle Low German: pantuffel, tuffele
  • Low German: Tuffel
  • → Dutch: pantoffel, toffel
  • → Russian: туфля (tuflja)
    • → Azerbaijani: tufli
    • → Kazakh: туфли (tufli)
    • → Uzbek: tufli
• → Spanish: pantufla, pantuflo

References

• pantoufle on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)