Meaning & use
palazzo pants
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Meanings
nounplural
Women's trousers with very wide, loose legs that hang straight from the waist or hip.
Grammar: Used with a plural verb: "These palazzo pants are comfortable." Count them with "a pair of".
Patterns
- a pair of palazzo pants
- wear palazzo pants
- palazzo pants with a wide leg
She wore black palazzo pants and a plain white top to the party.
Palazzo pants are cool and comfortable in hot weather because the fabric stays away from your legs.
He bought his sister a pair of silk palazzo pants for her birthday.
nounplural
A style of such trousers, especially a long flowing pair worn as evening or beach wear.
Grammar: Often used before another noun to describe the style: "a palazzo pants suit".
Patterns
- palazzo pants suit
- a flowing palazzo pants style
The designer showed palazzo pants in bright printed silk for summer.
For the cruise dinner she chose a palazzo pants outfit instead of a dress.
Common combinations
- a pair of palazzo pants
- I packed a pair of palazzo pants for the beach holiday.
- wide-leg palazzo pants
- Wide-leg palazzo pants suit tall women especially well.
- wear palazzo pants
- She likes to wear palazzo pants to work with a fitted jacket.
- flowy palazzo pants
- These flowy palazzo pants move nicely when you walk.
- palazzo pants suit
- He wore a cream palazzo pants suit to the wedding.
Synonyms and how they differ
- wide-leg trousers
- A more general term for any trousers with loose legs, of which palazzo pants are one very full style.
- culottes
- Similar and also wide, but culottes are usually cut shorter, around the calf or knee.
- bell-bottoms
- Also loose at the bottom, but they stay tight on the thigh and flare out only below the knee.
Opposites
Word family
- palazzo noun
- An Italian palace or a grand building; the trousers take their name from this word.
Commonly confused: palazzo pants or palazzo?
palazzo pants vs palazzo
On its own, palazzo means a large impressive building, not the trousers; add pants or trousers for the clothing.
Practice
Which sentence uses palazzo pants correctly?
Choose one answer.
Palazzo pants is always plural, so it needs a plural verb and is counted with "a pair of". Option 0 uses the singular "pant", option 1 has the wrong verb "is", and option 3 has the wrong verb "were".
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