Noun: caleçon
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | caleçon |
| Plural m | caleçons |
Sample Sentences
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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...) [1903, Jules Garçon, editor, Encyclopédie Universelle Des Industries Tinctoriales, page 199:]
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Un caleçon minuscule. (A tiny pair of boxers.) [1965, François Mauriac, Nouveaux Mémoires, Flammarion, page 905:]
Nouns inflected like caleçon
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian calzone, with an excrescent schwa (cf. the form calçon, attested in the sixteenth century). Doublet of chausson, an inherited form. See: Italian Nouns '
calzone'.
Verbs referencing "caleçon"
Russian Nouns
кальсоны.
Translations