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Pantaloon

noun

A buffoon in modern pantomimes; the butt of jokes.

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

Trousers worn in former times.

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"Pantaloon" Quotes from Famous Books

... were a grenadier carrying a dead comrade from the field. extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa. This done he turns the pelt inside out, like a pantaloon leg; gives it a good stretching, so as almost to double its diameter; and at last hangs it, well spread, in the .. rigging, to dry. Ere long, it is taken down; when removing some three feet of it, towards the pointed extremity, and then cutting two slits for ...

— Moby-Dick • Melville

... an enchanting irony out of an April day. The other, the fool with the gun.... Good God, he was a murderer! He smiled. Von Stinnes, a melancholy Pierrot doffing his hat with a gallant snicker to the moon. Hazlitt, a pantaloon. Yet tragic. Yes, there was something in the cafe that night—two men hurling themselves drunkenly against the taunting emptiness of life. The rage had come because he had remembered Rachel. A sudden mysterious remembering. A remembering that she was ...

— Erik Dorn • Ben Hecht

Words linked to "Pantaloon" : buffoon, trouser, pant, fictitious character, clown, fictional character, character