In American English if you wanted to talk about someone's trousers (British English) - the things you wear to cover your legs ...
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Pants comes from the French word 'pantaloon' - a type of tight-fitting garment that was briefly at the height of French fashion. To talk about clothing that covers a person's legs you would say pants ...