Dictionary

bepanted en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + pant + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Synonym of betrousered.
   • D. Lincoln Orr wired our poor be[-]panted editor, ‘Pants for Fall will be cut lower, but the prices are not due for a fall, but will rise higher. It behooves you to have those memorable ones re-seated.’ 1919, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, volume XXIV, page 727, column 2:
   • We shall smile upon the first bepanted females who appear likewise. 1937, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, “Summer People”, in A Home in the Country, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 154:
   • Her right hand came back and smoothed lightly over the point where bepanted body ceded to stringent leg. 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion: A Novel, Baskerville Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 26:
   • His mind was on that bepanted rear-end and its tender verso. 1973, Richard [Martin] Stern, Other Men’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 65:
   • Stage Door does both, contrasting more aggressive, bepanted characters with meeker, more feminine ones while also playing out the subplot of Tony Powell’s affairs and Judy’s dates with lumbermen. 2002, Judith Roof, “Spatial Attractions”, in All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, section “What’s to a Door?”, page 46:

Forms

Synonyms

betrousered