Definitions

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  • adjective Dressed in pantaloons.

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  • adjective dressed in trousers

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Examples

  • A pantalooned emissary might come prancing into your dooryard once every half-decade and give you a hard time, but for the most part you got on with your life relatively undisturbed.

    The State Despotic By Mark Steyn 2009

  • Patrick Harper, the huge Irishman, was one of the few men who had the brute strength to use one, and now he aimed the stubby, bunched barrels at the pantalooned figure that was limping beneath the arch of the small fortress.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • Patrick Harper, the huge Irishman, was one of the few men who had the brute strength to use one, and now he aimed the stubby, bunched barrels at the pantalooned figure that was limping beneath the arch of the small fortress.

    Sharpe's Sword Cornwell, Bernard 1983

  • Strange and boisterous school-boys, tight-pantalooned ushers, with menacing canes, were, to my yet unsophisticated mind, anything but agreeable subjects for a reverie, and I felt proportionately doleful; I turned my thoughts on the past, and I was very miserable.

    Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

  • Three carabaos grazed undisturbed on the forbidden square: another of the awkward powerful brutes dawdled up the dusty road, hauling a decrepit two-wheeled cart on which a naked-backed, red-pantalooned native dozed: Padre Velasco, the aged Spanish priest, waved a weary hand at

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

  • Sardinians and red-pantalooned French spread out in pursuit, and formed a picture so excitingly beautiful that we forgot the suffering and death they left behind.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • We can see the old pantalooned philosopher dropping his book or breaking away from his writing table, to join in the general jubilee attendant on the birth of another spring.

    The Bloom of Monticello 1926

  • And I, whose thirty kronen had passed her by the satin-pantalooned and lace-bosomed doorkeeper, was quite forgot.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • From the pantalooned giants who relieve you of your outer garments to the farthest table in the room where the great windows overlook the Embankment Gardens, there is not one note to mar the gorgeous _ensemble_.

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • But beyond these there are no men in sight save the pantalooned exception who mows the grass, and with the whirr of his clicking knives sounds the prelude of the summer.

    Journeys to Bagdad 1906

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