bepanted

• be-pantsed, bepantsed

From be- +‎ pant +‎ -ed.

bepanted (not comparable)

1. Synonym of betrousered
   • 1919, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, volume XXIV, page 727, column 2:

     D. Lincoln Orr wired our poor be[-]panted editor, ‘Pants for Fall will be cut lower, but the prices are not due for a fall, but will rise higher. It behooves you to have those memorable ones re-seated.’

   • 1937, Frederic F[ranklyn] Van de Water, “Summer People”, in A Home in the Country, New York, N.Y.: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 154:

     We shall smile upon the first bepanted females who appear likewise.

   • 1973, Richard [Martin] Stern, Other Men’s Daughters, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., page 65:

     His mind was on that bepanted rear-end and its tender verso.

   • 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, A Singular Passion: A Novel, Baskerville Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 26:

     Her right hand came back and smoothed lightly over the point where bepanted body ceded to stringent leg.

   • 2002, Judith Roof, “Spatial Attractions”, in All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, Urbana, Ill., Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, section “What’s to a Door?”, page 46:

     Stage Door does both, contrasting more aggressive, bepanted characters with meeker, more feminine ones while also playing out the subplot of Tony Powell’s affairs and Judy’s dates with lumbermen.