pantaloon

1. (countable) An aging buffoon.Examples: "Hic ibat, as I told you before, —Simois, I am Lucentio, hic est, son unto Vincentio of Pisa,— Sigeia tellus, disguised thus to get your love; — Hic steterat, and that Lucentio that comes a-wooing, — Priami, is my man Tranio, — regia, bearing my port, celsa senis, that we might beguile the old pantaloon."; "They constantly followed the virtuous pair, who as constantly eluded their grasp, whilst they themselves met with every kind of misfortune, until they became clown and pantaloon, […]."; "The Bishop is a lean and slippered pantaloon, at least in his old clerical garments which he thinks good enough for the sea."

2. (chiefly in the plural) Trousers reminiscent of the tight-fitting leggings traditionally worn by a pantaloon.