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"In the mid-17th century the French came to identify him (Pantaleon, the patron saint of Venice -ed.) with one particular style of trousers, a style which became known as pantaloons in English. Pantaloons was later applied to another style that came into fashion in the late 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches. After that pantaloons was used to refer to trousers in general. The abbreviation of pantaloons to pants met with some resistance at first; it was considered vulgar and, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "a word not made for gentlemen, but 'gents.'"



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• 1 Joseph Fitzgerald
  

  XIIXXIXII
  playing since:
  Feb 3, 2008
  score: 205
  LEADER
  

• 1 Emma Fitzgerald
  

  Emmabean
  playing since:
  Feb 5, 2008
  score: 115
  

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