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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pantaloon
clown
Noun
  • Target recently received backlash for 'offensive' Halloween costume This comes on the heels of Target apologizing in late August for a Halloween circus clown costume that critics said appeared to conjure Blackface and 19th-century minstrel shows.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Cam Schlittler, no stranger to Boston beef, used an emoji to call Flemming a clown on an Instagram post.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of clown

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