Pan-Handle State

Phrases and Names Their Origins and Meanings · 1896 · p. 17
West Virginia, on account of its shape, rising up like a wedge between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Panorama. Expre es the Greek for “a view of the whole,” as would be obtained from a monument or a natural eminence. This is the correct description of a picture exhibited in a circular building, where the spectators are placed in the centre; not at all of an old form of picture entertainment at one end of a hall, which approximates to a Diorama , because conformably to di , through, it is viewed through the darkne . Pantaloon. One of the characters of the Italian comedy or “Pantomime,” so called because he was typical of the Venetians, wearing, like them, originally a close-fitting garment made all in one piece, known as a pan tale one . The Venetians were nicknamed Pan tale one (“all lion”) from their common patron, St Mark, whose symbol was a lion; hence the application of the term pantaloons to tight-fitting knickerbockers or trousers.
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