pantin

pantin (plural pantins)

1. A jumping jack (toy)
   • 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 157:

     About 1750 the pantins were made in five parts, the body and head, the two arms and the two legs. They were engraved on sheets of paper or card and could be cut out at home or bought ready cut and coloured. Later on they were printed by lithography.

pantin

1. genitive singular of pantti

• pinnat

Alteration of Middle French pantine, from pan (“piece of fabric”) + suffix -ine.

• IPA^(key): /pɑ̃.tɛ̃/

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pantin m (plural pantins)

1. puppet

• “pantin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pinant