pantaloons

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  1. A garment for men, consisting of breeches and stockings in one: so called because worn by Venetians. I could not but wonder to see pantaloons and shoulder-knots crowding among the common clowns. Roger North, Lord Guilford, [I. 289. (Davies.)
  2. In the early years of the nineteenth century, tight-fitting garments for the thighs and legs, worn by men of fashion, generally buttoned around the lower part of the calf, or sometimes tied with ribbons at this point.
  3. Trousers—the modern trousers having succeeded to the pantaloons by a gradual transition. It appeared to the butcher that he could pretty clearly discern what seemed to be the stalwart legs, clad in black pantaloons, of a man sitting in a large oaken chair, the back of which concealed all the remainder of his figure. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xix.
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  • Hanging off the thigh of her pantaloons was a live lobster, his jagged claws entangled in her charming white ruffles Emily bit into a succulent shrimp and watched with mild interest as Cecille danced a merry reel among the rattling plates. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • My nether garments are handed to the khan; in the pocket of my pantaloons is a purse containing a few kerans. —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
  • Repel the invader or fill the trenches with our noble dead That woman shall not have my pantaloons," cried the editor of the big city daily; "nor my pantaloons" said the editor of the dignified weekly; "nor my pantaloons," said he who issued manifestos but once a month; "nor mine," "nor mine," "nor mine," chimed in the small fry of the country towns Even the religious press could not get past the tailor shop, and "pantaloons" was the watchword all along the line. —  Half a Century
  • On the next morning I saw him, and his pantaloons were all in a gore of blood During my stay in Jefferson county, Philip O. Hughes was out one day with his gun--he saw a negro at some distance, with a club in one hand and an ear of corn in the other--Hughes stepped behind a tree, and waited his approach; he supposed the negro to be a runaway, who had escaped about nine months before from his master, living not very far distant. —  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • My money was with my pantaloons, and my pantaloons were with the Indians Thus I escaped. —  Sketches New and Old
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  1. from French pantalon (plural pantalons, used only for two or more pairs)= SP. pantalones, plural, = Portuguese pantalonas, plural, = New Greek πανταλόνι, from Italian Pantaloni, pantaloons, from Pantalone, a Venetian: see pantaloon. Cf. Venetians, a form of hose or breeches, also of Venetian origin.
 

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