French

Noun

caleçon m ‎(plural caleçons)

1. boxer shorts, boxer briefs

Derived terms

• caleçon de bain

Usage notes

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

Quotations

• 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.")