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pantalone

pantalone 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.

Proper noun capitalized: Pantalone

Pantalone (plural Pantalones)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of pantalone

Noun
pluralpantalones
Proper noun
pluralPantalones

Origin of pantalone

Borrowed from Italian Pantalone.

Questions about pantalone

What does pantalone mean?
Pantalone means a surname from Italian.
What is pantalone the alternative form of?
Pantalone is the alternative form of pantaloon.
What part of speech is pantalone?
Pantalone is a proper noun.

Words near pantalone in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pantalone (page history and authors); Pantalone (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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