caleçon

Borrowed from Italian calzone. Compare chausson.

• IPA^(key): /kal.sɔ̃/

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caleçon m (plural caleçons)

1. boxer shorts, boxer briefs
   • 1903. Jules Garçon, editor, Encyclopédie Universelle Des Industries Tinctoriales..., Page 199:

     Ce qui me le fit mettre dans les poches de mon caleçon de bain... ("What I did put in the pockets of my swimming shorts?")

   • 1965. François Mauriac, Nouveaux Mémoires, Flammarion, page 905:

     Un caleçon minuscule. ("A tiny [pair of] briefs.")

• Caleçons sold in Quebec tend to be more conservatively cut than their equivalent in France or Haiti.

• caleçon de bain

• “caleçon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).