Pantaloon Explained

Pantaloon (from Italian Pantalone), is a traditional type of pants in 16th-century Italian Commedia dell'arte.

Pantaloon or Pantaloons may also refer to:

Theatre

• Pantaloon, a character in the Harlequinade
  • Pantaloons, a style of trousers originally modelled after the Pantaloon character
  • Pantaloons, modern baggy trousers
• The Pantaloons, a British touring theatre company
• The pantaloon, sixth character in the Seven Ages of Man speech from Shakespeare's As You Like It Act II Scene VII. "All the world's a stage..."
• The Pantaloon, penultimate painting from Smirke's The Seven Ages of Man (painting series)

Other

• "The Pantaloon", a song by Twenty One Pilots from Twenty One Pilots (album).
• HMS Pantaloon, two ships of the Royal Navy
• Pantaloons Retail, a large retailer in India, now renamed

See also

• Pantalon, a musical instrument
• Pantalone, a character in the Italian commedia dell'arte
• Pantaloon hernia, the coexistence of direct and indirect hernias descending either side of the epigastric artery