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pantalon

pantalon is the alternative form of pantaloon.

Meaning of pantaloon

Noun

pantaloon (countable and uncountable, plural pantaloons)

  1. (countable) An aging buffoon.
    • 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...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]...
  2. (in plural) Trousers reminiscent of the tight-fitting leggings traditionally worn by a pantaloon.
  3. A kind of fabric.

Forms of pantalon

pluralpantalons

Questions about pantalon

What is pantalon the alternative form of?
Pantalon is the alternative form of pantaloon.

Words near pantalon in the dictionary

  1. pantalets
  2. pantalette
  3. pantaletted
  4. pantalettes
  5. pantalgia
  6. pantalon
  7. pantalone
  8. pantalones
  9. pantalons
  10. pantaloon
  11. pantalooned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantalon (page history and authors); pantaloon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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