Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of bepanted.
I cross my flannel be-pantsed legs and sigh.
2011 January 2, Rebecca Ross, “A new year of the same ol’ same ol’”, in Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola, Fla., section “Shiny happy people”, page 4E, column 62 more examples
Dear Jané, / Maybe Mrs. J. P. M., who objects to her daughter-in-law’s “pants,” has a son like my husband.[…]Be-pantsed Housewife, L.A.
1954 July 17, “Most Sincerely, Jane Palmer”, in The Mirror, volume VI, number 240, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 6, column 5“When women are emancipated, or feel they are about to be,” writes Laver, “they invariably steal some article of male attire: the hat, the coat, the waistcoat, and finally, the trousers.” No be-pantsed and booted militant of Women’s Lib would quarrel with that.
1970 May 21, Alice Blankfort, “What’s in a hem?”, in Imperial Beach Star-News, number 22, Imperial Beach, Calif., page B-1, column 6
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