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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pantaloons
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But his pantaloons and enormous royal feet have survived, improbably, down the centuries.
▪ He was wearing old plaid trousers, over-large and loose as pantaloons, and tied at the ankles with string.
▪ Old amahs in black pantaloons lit joss sticks in wayside temples, and prayed for prosperity.
▪ She gingerly lifted her skirt to reveal perhaps twelve inches of heavily embroidered, ankle-tight white pantaloons.
▪ Some still wore knee breeches, but tightly-fitting pantaloons buttoned round the ankle over the white silk socks were permitted.
▪ The men came dressed in plumed hats, capes, and Elizabethan pantaloons.
▪ The tail of her shirt hung outside a pair of patched and baggy cotton pantaloons.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pantaloons

1660s, "kind of tights" (originally a French fashion and execrated as such by late 17c. English writers), associated with Pantaloun (1580s), silly old man character in Italian comedy who wore tight trousers over his skinny legs, from Italian Pantalone, originally San Pantaleone, Christian martyr, a popular saint in Venice (Pantaleone in the comedies represents the Venetian). The name is of Greek origin and means "all-compassionate" (or, according to Klein, "entirely lion"). Applied to tight long trousers (replacing knee-breeches) by 1798; pants is a shortened form first recorded 1840.

Wiktionary
pantaloons

n. An article of clothing covering each leg separately, that covers the area from the waist to the ankle.

Usage examples of "pantaloons".

The motor was thick with dust kitties, and the drip pan was gummy with God knows what.

Instead of the blue tunic and pantaloons that uniformed Geoffrey's men, Leonidas wore the crimson vestments of a hierophant of the Lion God, with a general's sunburst over each shoulder.

His pantaloons and tunic were dyed gray, not the blue of the indigo he'd slaved to grow.

They cursed Avram as fiercely as any other northern man in indigo pantaloons might have done.

He went further than that: he pulled out the pockets of his pantaloons to show he had no traveling carpets hidden there.

And then he took off his hat and waved it and whooped out loud: up the road marched a long column of crossbowmen in indigo tunics and pantaloons (some in gray pantaloons, taken from dead southrons).

George yelled back, as if his gray tunic and pantaloons weren't enough to announce which king he served.

Careless of his pantaloons, James dropped to one knee and bowed his head.

Bart eyed the long columns of men in gray tunics and pantaloons tramping into Rising Rock.

If that weren't true, he would have been wearing blue pantaloons and calling Geoffrey his sovereign.

Still and all, he did manage to beat the point aside, which meant the fellow in gray tunic and pantaloons didn't spit him for roasting, as he'd no doubt had in mind.

They're wearing pantaloons and tunics they've taken off of dead southrons—either that or they're wearing rags.

As he'd told Patrick the Cleaver, too many of his men wore gray pantaloons and sometimes even tunics captured from the southrons.

He'd taken off his pantaloons, got the bottom of his shirt wet, and gone on about his business.

Some of them wore gray tunics and pantaloons of a cut not much different from that of southron uniforms.