Partlet

Definition:

• (n.) A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff.
• (n.) A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers.

Compare partlet with other words:

partlet vs. tartlet

martlet vs. partlet

neck vs. partlet

covering vs. partlet

hen vs. partlet