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===Costume=== Pantalone's costume was designed with the inappropriateness intended to comically entertain.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte|last=Chaffee|first=Judith, and Olly Crick|pages=68}}</ref> The costume for Pantalone is characterized by the use of red for almost the entire costume. The characteristics of the costume also include a Greek style hat, a jacket, a pair of long trousers or breeches with stockings, a tight jacket, a woollen skullcap, a robe or cape, a prominent codpiece or strategically placed coin purse,<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> a black and red robe and yellow Turkish slippers.<ref name=":2" /> During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a sword or dagger and gold medallion often accompanied the purse.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> The Pantalone mask is a half-mask with accents on bony structure, big, bushy eyebrows, a long, hooked nose, a mustache, and a long, pointed or forked beard.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Playing Commedia|last=Grantham|first=Barry|pages=156}}</ref> He occasionally is noted as having horn spectacles.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Italian Popular Comedy|last=Lea|first=K.M.|pages=15}}</ref> He occasionally carries a walking stick, but it is used more as an aggravating weapon than an actual walking tool.<ref name=":5" /> Because of his skinny legs, Pantalone is often portrayed wearing trousers rather than knee-[[breeches]] (which Jacques refers to as "his youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide/For his shrunk [[Lower leg|shank]]"). He therefore became the origin of the name of a type of trouser called "pantaloons", which was later shortened to "[[Trousers|pants]]".<ref name="etymonline" />
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