half-pant

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English

Etymology

From half +‎ pant.

Noun

half-pant

  1. (India) Shorts.
    • 2011, Bhaskar Majumder, Rethinking Villages, page 102:
      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.
    • 2014, P. Shankar, Where Gods Die, page 146:
      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.

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