pantaloon

noun

Definition of pantaloonnext
as in clown

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Recent Examples of pantaloon The cloth and leather and striped pantaloons that go into the fashioning of escape. — Bitter Kalli august 19, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 Comments sections on the videos overflow with questions about how so many women seem to have pantaloons, vests and puffy shirts at the ready. — Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025 Dresses, skirts, wide-leg silhouettes, pantaloons—all are great options for allowing what few breezes pass through the city to access, uh, restricted areas. — Sam Reed, Glamour, 24 June 2025 The brand recently dipped into pants—or, rather, pantaloons—dressing Anya Taylor-Joy and Keira Knightley in lace and velvet trousers. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pantaloon
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clown
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  • But my favorite Tim Curry performance will always be Pennywise, the clown in Tommy Lee Wallace’s 1990 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s It, which, compared to Andy Muschietti’s mega popular pair of films, is modest, even a little lame.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Curry, who died Tuesday at 80, made a gleefully evil turn as a clown that sparked nightmares for legions of Gen X and millennial viewers that continue to haunt to this day.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of clown

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“Pantaloon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pantaloon. Accessed 30 Aug. 2026.

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