panties

Charles C Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Wed Nov 23 13:53:44 UTC 2011


I remember in the 1987 movie _Raising Arizona_ the term "panty" (singular) is used to mean 'pair of panty-hose'; how common is that usage?  (Or is the term "panty-hose" itself archaic?)

--Charlie

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