pantalon de clown
French
noun
Definitions
- (Quebec) Camo pants (pants with patterns typical of military camouflage) of a random assortment of colours, worn as a protest against government and contract terms, by uniformed employees, in violation of uniform dress codes.
- clown pants
Etymology
Compound from French pantalon (pants) + French clown (clown).
Origin
French
clown
Gloss
clown
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- clown English
- pantaloon English
- pantaloons English
- Pantaleone Italian
- Pantalone Italian
- pantalone Italian
- clown French
- clownerie French
- pantalon French
- pantalonnade French
- pantalón Spanish, Castilian
- pantalono Esperanto
- pantaló Catalan, Valencian
- pantalon Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- pantolon Turkish
- پانتالون Ottoman Turkish
- بنطلون Hijazi Arabic
- kubutula Chichewa, Chewa, Nyanja