pantofle

• pantable
• pantoble

From Middle French pantoufle (“slipper”), of uncertain origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpantəfl̩/, /panˈtɒfl̩/

pantofle (plural pantofles)

1. (archaic, historical) A slipper. [from 15th c.]
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection i:

     And although she threatened to break his bow and arrows, to clip his wings, and whipped him besides on the bare buttocks with her pantofle, yet all would not serve […].

pantofle

1. plural of pantofel