be-pantsed

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be-pantsed (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of bepanted
    • 1954 July 17, “Most Sincerely, Jane Palmer”, in The Mirror, volume VI, number 240, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 6, column 5:
      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.
    • 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:
      “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.
    • 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 6:
      I cross my flannel be-pantsed legs and sigh.