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pantaloons

pantaloons noun: an article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle. Also the plural of pantaloon.

Noun

pantaloons pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle.
    • But the truth was, her pantaloons came down to her ankles, and when she got the leg of one caught in a twig, she nearly fainted[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 19

Also used as

pantaloons is also the plural of pantaloon.

pantaloons meaning in Malay

pantaloons in Malay

an article of clothing covering each leg separately
pantelon

Origin of pantaloons

From pantaloon.

Words formed from pantaloons

Questions about pantaloons

What does pantaloons mean?
Pantaloons means an article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle.
What is pantaloons in Malay?
Pantaloons in Malay is pantelon. See Pantaloons meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is pantaloons?
Pantaloons is a noun.

Words near pantaloons in the dictionary

  1. pantalons
  2. pantaloon
  3. pantalooned
  4. pantalooneries
  5. pantaloonery
  6. pantaloons
  7. pantamorphic
  8. pantanal
  9. Pantanal cat
  10. Pantanal cats
  11. pantanals

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