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pantaloon en · NOUN

Borrowed from French pantalon, from Italian Pantalone (a character in Commedia dell'arte), from Spanish Pantaleon (surname).

(countable) An aging buffoon.
- The Bishop is a lean and slippered pantaloon, at least in his old clerical garments which he thinks good enough for the sea. 1960, Lady Caroline Lane Reynolds Slemmer Jebb, With Dearest Love to All: The Life and Letters of Lady Jebb, page 213:
- Hic ibat, as I told you before, —Simois, I am Lucentio, hic est, son unto Vincentio of Pisa,— Sigeia tellus, disguised thus to get your love; — Hic steterat, and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing, — Priami, is my man Tranio, — regia, bearing my port, celsa senis, that we might beguile the old pantaloon. c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], line 37:
- They constantly followed the virtuous pair, who as constantly eluded their grasp, whilst they themselves met with every kind of misfortune, until they became clown and pantaloon, […]. 1882, William Ballantine, Some Experiences of a Barrister's Life, page 234:
(countable, in-plural, uncountable) Trousers reminiscent of the tight-fitting leggings traditionally worn by a pantaloon.
(countable, uncountable) A kind of fabric.

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