PANTALOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pantaloon mean? 

• PANTALOON (noun)
  The noun PANTALOON has 3 senses:

1. a buffoon in modern pantomimes; the butt of jokes

2. a character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man

3. trousers worn in former times

  Familiarity information: PANTALOON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANTALOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A buffoon in modern pantomimes; the butt of jokes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

buffoon; clown (a rude or vulgar fool)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

character; fictional character; fictitious character (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Trousers worn in former times

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pantaloon" is a kind of...):

pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)

 Context examples 

Rendered complete by drab pantaloons and a buff waistcoat, I thought Mr. Barkis a phenomenon of respectability.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was dressed in a single-breasted black coat buttoned up, a pair of leather pantaloons stretched tightly across his broad thighs, polished Hessian boots, and a huge white neckcloth.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’ll tell you what, I will make each of them a shirt, and a coat and waistcoat, and a pair of pantaloons into the bargain; and do you make each of them a little pair of shoes.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The little tailor, who was only pretending to be asleep, began to cry out in a clear voice: Boy, make me the doublet and patch me the pantaloons, or I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

It was he who invented buttons and loops at the ends of dress pantaloons, and who broke fresh ground by his investigation of the comparative merits of isinglass and of starch in the preparation of shirt-fronts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After some time the young queen heard her husband say in his dreams at night: “Boy, make me the doublet, and patch the pantaloons, or else I will rap the yard-measure over your ears.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)