Pantaloon meaning

păn'tə-lo͝on'
A character in the commedia dell'arte, portrayed as a foolish old man in tight trousers and slippers.
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Trousers; pants.
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A stock character in modern pantomime, the butt of a clown's jokes.
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An aging buffoon.
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Trousers reminiscent of the tight-fitting leggings traditionally worn by a pantaloon.
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A kind of fabric.
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Origin of pantaloon

  • French Pantalon from Italian Pantalone after San Pantalone , or Saint Pantaleon (died ad 303), Roman physician and martyr
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • French pantalon a kind of trouser from Pantalon Pantaloon Pantaloon
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Borrowing 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 (pan) and λέων (leōn).
    From Wiktionary

Pantaloon Sentence Examples

  • Theophano died at Nimwegen on the 15th of June 991, and was buried in the church of St Pantaloon at Cologne.

  • Eclipse was a chestnut; Castrel, Selim and Rubens were chestnuts; so also were Glencoe and Pantaloon, of whom the latter had black spots on his hind quarters like Eclipse; and also Stockwell and Doncaster.

  • This mare was by Eclipse's son Alexander (1782) out of a mare by Highflyer (son of Herod) out of a daughter of Alfred, by Matchem out of a daughter of Snap. Bustard (1813), whose dam was a daughter of Shuttle, and his son Heron (1833), Sultan (1816) and his sons Glencoe (1831) and Bay Middleton (1833) and Middleton's sons Cowl (1842) and the Flying Dutchman (1846), Pantaloon (1824) and his son Windhound (1847), Langar (1817) and his son Epirus (1834) and grandson Pyrrhus the First (1843), are representatives of Castrel and Selim.

  • He raised what looked like a pantaloon.

  • It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon.

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