partlet
/ˈpɑrtlɪt/
noun
- A hen, especially a small or young one.
- The children named the small brown partlet 'Clucky'.
- A little partlet scratched in the dirt near the barn door.
- The old farmer called his favorite partlet to come for some grain.
- A woman's garment, typically a ruffled or embroidered collar or yoke worn over the shoulders and chest, popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- The museum displayed a delicate linen partlet from the Elizabethan era.
- The portrait showed the queen in a richly embroidered partlet.
- She wore a simple partlet with her gown to the Renaissance fair.