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PANTALOON (Ital. pantalone)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 682 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PANTALOON (Ital. pantalone) , a
character
  in the old
Italian
  popular
comedy
 , said to represent a Venetian, from the favourite Venetian
saint
  San Pantaleone, and transferred from it to
pantomime
  (q.v.). The
Italian
 
pantaloon
  was always a
silly
  old man with
spectacles
  and wearing slippers, and his
character
  was maintained in
pantomime
  and has also made his name a synonym for a tottering dotard, as in
Shakespeare
 's As You Like It (Ir. vii. 158). From the Venetian usage the word "
pantaloon
  " (whence "pants ") has also been given to certain forms of garment for the legs, the exact meaning varying at different times.


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