half-pant

noun

Shorts.

Meanings

noun

alternative half pant

  1. IndiaShorts.

    A normal tendency for buying a gift is that it should be attractive like the saree of a woman, useful like the trousers of a man and costs like the half pant of a child.

    2014, P. Shankar, Where Gods Die, page 146
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    Children wear half pant-banyan or shirt, or knicker and shirt. Middle class men of the older generation wear dhoti-kurta or pyjama-kurta, and sadari (a kind of jacket), over the kurta.

    2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, page 102

Origin

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