caleçon
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian calzone, with an excrescent schwa[1] (cf. the form calçon, attested in the sixteenth century).[2] Doublet of chausson, an inherited form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]caleçon m (plural caleçons)
- boxer shorts, boxer briefs
- 1903, Jules Garçon, editor, Encyclopédie Universelle Des Industries Tinctoriales, page 199:
- Ce qui me le fit mettre dans les poches de mon caleçon de bain...
- Which made me put it in the pockets of my swimming trunks...
- 1965, François Mauriac, Nouveaux Mémoires, Flammarion, page 905:
- Un caleçon minuscule.
- A tiny pair of boxers.
Usage notes
[edit]- Caleçons sold in Quebec tend to be more conservatively cut than their equivalent in France or Haiti.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Greek: καλσόν (kalsón)
- → Esperanto: kalsono
- Louisiana Creole: caneçon
- → Swedish: kalsonger
- → Japanese: カルソン
References
[edit]- Müller, Daniela. 2011. Developments of the lateral in Occitan dialects and their Romance and cross-linguistic context. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Toulouse.
- ^ Müller 2011: 46
- ^ * “caleçon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.