Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Men's wide breeches extending from waist to ankle, worn especially in England in the late 17th century. Often used in the plural.
- n. Tight trousers extending from waist to ankle with straps passing under the instep, worn especially in the 19th century. Often used in the plural.
- n. Trousers; pants. Often used in the plural.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In early Italian comedy, a character usually represented as a lean and foolish old man (properly a Venetian), wearing spectacles and slippers.
- n. In mod. Pantomime, a character usually represented as a foolish and vicious old man, the butt of the clown, and his accomplice in all his wicked and funny pranks.
Wiktionary
- n. An aging buffoon.
- n. Trousers reminiscent of the tight-fitting leggings traditionally worn by a pantaloon.
- n. A kind of fabric.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.
- n. A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.
- n. In recent times, a loose-fitting variety of Trousers, often of less than ankle length.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man
- n. a buffoon in modern pantomimes; the butt of jokes
- n. trousers worn in former times
Etymologies
- From French pantalon, from Italian Pantaleone, a traditional character in 16th-century Italian comedy. See “Commedia dell'arte” in Wikipedia. The name is of Ancient Greek origin and loosely translates as "entirely lion." See παν and λέων. (Wiktionary)
- French pantalon, a kind of trouser, from Pantalon, Pantaloon; see Pantaloon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Clowns and Pantaloons in our Pantomimes: though Colney says that the multiplication of the pantaloon is a distinct advance to representative truth -- and bother Colney!”
“Pantaloons in our Pantomimes: though Colney says that the multiplication of the pantaloon is a distinct advance to representative truth -- and bother Colney!”
“Pants come from the word "pantaloon" which was originally underwear.”
“His neighbor perhaps will be an old gentleman, the very type of the old "pantaloon" whose mask was in the old comedy supposed to be the impersonation of”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
“The principal one resembled the clown of modern pantomime; another was a kind of pantaloon or charlatan, and much of the rest consisted of practical jokes, like that of the Italian Polincinella.”
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
“I've owned and worn pantaloon and tunic sets in bright, cool cottons; let me be the first to recommend these, also I've worn the Malaysian tunic and long pleated skirt sets; also incredibly comfortable; remember, these styles have been developed and worn by people who live in tropical heat year in, year out.”
“The first non-Discworld Pratchett in decades has the familiar mix of serious plotting and underlying farce, as an iconoclastic Polynesian lad and a properly raised Victorian lass carry on through tsunami, plague, shipwreck, pigs, pantaloon birds, gods, grandparents and cannibals.”
“I see the nest and drink in the localities of the nest and cross from the nest to the nest across pantaloon bridges and floating portcullises in the nest.”
“Am I not beyond reading of a fine leg in a yellow pantaloon and a snowy white cravat, tied just so?”
“Plunkett, her name was, the sporty young wife of an elderly pantaloon who was a High Court judge or something of that order.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pantaloon’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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cblucy's list
Words I love and hate. You figure it out.
panty, cudgel, patina, pantaloon, curmudgeon, shekel, fructose, speculum, microscopic, iris, pallet, tubing and 1 more...
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Phonetically Fun
spittoon, cartouche, baboon, squeeze, bamboozle, pojoaque, pilfer, zamboni, elasticity, pantaloon, oodles, bejesus and 6 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms
135 Offensive Shakespearean Terms =)
artless, baggage, barnacle, bawdy, beef-witted, bladder, boil-brained, bootless, brazen, cankerblossom, churlish, churrish and 123 more...
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-oons (once of more than one syllable)
Originally this list was to contain multisyllabic words that end in "oon," but as you can see from the comments, all hell broke loose.
doubloon, poltroon, spittoon, patroon, dragoon, bassoon, platoon, typhoon, rangoon, maroon, pontoon, monsoon and 96 more...
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P is for Porch Dog
My P Words
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bertilak's Words
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Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Words I Like
Random vocabulary words that I am particularly fond of.
absquatulate, anthropophagy, bibliobibuli, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, brobdingnagian, brummagem, bugaboo, callipygian, cataglottism, chiaroscuro and 92 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
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Words that are fun to say
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Ye Olde Shouting Match
From a list of insulting words that you might encounter in a Middle English shouting match.
The list was given to me by my English teacher.bawdy, bunch-backed, canker-blossom, brazen, clay-brained, clotpole, churlish, dog-hearted, crutch, distempered, empty-hearted, cutpurse and 78 more...
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sartorial splendor
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
-Mark Twainapplique, ascot, brogue, dressing gown, frippery, gusset, grommet, placket, silhouette, whipstitch, appliqué, baste and 59 more...
Tweets
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yarb ...his hair was black and unconscious of a curl, his face lengthened, his complexion olive-coloured, his mouth retiring inwards, with the sharp-pointed, turn-up chin of a pantaloon.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 11 ch. 2 Oct 10, 2008