Definitions for Pantaloon

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Pantaloon pan·ta·loon

Spelling: [pan-tl-oon]

IPA: /ˌpæn tlˈun/

Pantaloon is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in Pantaloon (aalnnoopt).

Definitions for Pantaloon

noun

1. pantaloons, a man's close-fitting garment for the hips and legs, worn especially in the 19th century, but varying in form from period to period; trousers.
2. (usually initial capital letter). Also, Pantalone [pan-tl-oh-ney, pahn-; Italian pahn-tah-law-ne] /ˌpæn tlˈoʊ neɪ, ˌpɑn-; Italian ˌpɑn tɑˈlɔ nɛ/ (Show IPA). (in commedia dell'arte) a foolish old Venetian merchant, usually the head of a household, generally lascivious and frequently deceived in the course of lovers' intrigues.
3. (in the modern pantomime) a foolish, vicious old man, the butt and accomplice of the clown.

Origin of Pantaloon

1580-90; Middle French Pantalon Upper Italian (Venetian) Pantalone nickname for a Venetian, variant of Pantaleone, name of a 4th-century saint once a favorite of the Venetians

Examples for Pantaloon

"That is a very original and profound discovery," said pantaloon, quite seriously.

He is attended by pantaloon, who carries on the usual by-play with Arlecchino.

On a night of carnival how greedily the crowd assumes the pantaloon!

How often have we wished that the pantaloon were our god-father!

A comical creature, surely, this Chinaman, the pantaloon of civilization.

"That is the delusion proper to Pierrot," said pantaloon, contemptuously.

pantaloon flung a great arm about the young man's shoulders.

They made a regular clown and pantaloon o' the pair, I'm told.

But it is rarely that I find it necessary to call myself other than pantaloon.

A comrade slit down the leg of the pantaloon with a knife, when lo!