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Pants

noun

Underpants worn by women. Synonyms: bloomers, drawers, knickers.

Pant

verb

(past & past part. panted; pres. part. panting)

Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted. Synonyms: gasp, heave, puff.

Utter while panting, as if out of breath.

noun

The noise made by a short puff of steam (as from an engine).

(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately. Synonym: trouser.

A short labored intake of breath with the mouth open. Synonym: gasp.

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... "They turned me out just as the cremation was commencing. When we reached the meru I was met by an official wearing bright-blue pants, who told me that he had been sent to assist me in taking the pictures. Well, I got a few shots of the meru itself, and of the royal pavilion, and of some of the priests and soldiers, but there wasn't much doing because there wasn't any action. So I sat down ...

— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell

... the folks looked askance At the seats of our pants, When those giant skyrockets Went off in our pockets! Gee whiz! ...

— Poems for Pale People - A Volume of Verse • Edwin C. Ranck

... replied Sandy, shaking his head mournfully. "Wen I lef home las' night after supper, my clo's wuz all put erway in de closet in my room, folded up on de she'f ter keep de moths out. Dey wuz my good clo's,—de blue coat dat you wo' ter de weddin' fo'ty years ago, an' dem dere plaid pants I gun Mistuh Cohen fo' dollars fer three years ago; an' w'en I looked in my closet dis mawnin', suh, befo' I got ready ter sta't fer Belleview, dere wuz my clo's layin' on de flo', all muddy an' crumple' ...

— The Marrow of Tradition • Charles W. Chesnutt

... hand and made a descriptive motion as of tossing her glove into the centre of a distant circle—her eyelids narrowing until they seemed almost to close—a strange light escaping from them—her breath coming with slow pants, as if from suffocation—the hand dropped at her side betraying her passion by convulsive movements trembling ...

— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull

... remembered the strange depolarized feeling consequent upon realizing that his whole worldly possessions consisted in three "grey-back" shirts, two pairs of cotton pants, two pairs of woollen socks, a towel; a hold-all containing razor, shaving-brush, spoon, knife and fork, and a button-stick; a cylindrical valise with hair-brush, clothes-brush, brass-brush, and boot-brushes; ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

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