Crossword-Solution: PANTALON 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

How it may be for campaigning, you can pronounce; but for dancing, the pantalon collant is the perfect uniform.

Alors aux yeux de cette foule très apitoyée apparut une singulière vision et d'un seul coup tout le mystère fur révélé, Les basques, le pantalon, le caleçon et la chemise d'Arsay avaient été soigneusement découpés en un rond régulier qui mettait à nu l'anatomie du pauvre candidat depuis le creux des reins jusqu'à une main environ au-dessus de la jointure des genoux.

Delle Sedie thought that I should begin with "Tre Giorni son che Nina," of Pergolesi, and then the air from "Lucia," and if I were asked to sing again the "Valse de Venzano." On these occasions gentlemen wear the _pantalon collant_, which is a most unbecoming and trying costume, being of black cloth fitting very tight and tapering down to the ankle, where it finishes abruptly with a button.

The gentlemen wear _culottes courtes_ the first evening they arrive, and on such fine occasions as the _curée_, and at the Gala Theater, where outsiders are invited; otherwise they always wear _pantalon collant_, which is the most unbecoming thing one can imagine in the way of manly attire.

Prince Metternich (his bosom friend) exclaimed: "Who would ever have thought it? How talent conceals itself!" The whole word PANTALON was a combination of Columbines, Harlequins, and Louis-Quinze cavaliers dancing in a circle, and all talking nonsense at once.