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Panto(u)n, n. Also: -oune, -own, -ene; panttone; plur. pantonis, also -ounnes. [Origin obscure; ? related, with altered suffix, to Pantoffil.Also in the mod. dial. of Shetl. as pantan, -in.]

A kind of soft shoe or slipper.? Chiefly or only, one made of velvet.Also attiib. with -hele, -helemaker (and see also Hele n.¹ 3).For many additional examples, see the Indexes to the various vols. of Treas. Acc., and, also, for three other examples, Mule n.² 1489 Treas. Acc. I. iii.
Payt to Ryche Cordynar for xxx^ti payre of schone and xxx^ti paire of pantonis 1490 Acta Conc. I. 158/1.
Pantovnis 1493 Halyb. 5. 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 212.
Ane pair of pantonis of wellus maid in Flandrez c1500-c1512 Dunb. liii. 27.
He trippet quhill he tint his pantoun [:wantoun] 1530 Balmerino and L. Chart. 32. 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 186. 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 155. 1541–2 Ib. VIII. 61. 1546 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS. XXI. 52 b.
Pantownis 1547 Treas. Acc. IX. 124.
Blake welwote to cover ane pair of pantounnes c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 930.
This fair ladie … Start vp … With pantonis on hir feit ane pair a1568 Bann. MS. 228 b/63. 1567 Bamff Chart. 69. 1567 G. Ball. 195.
Preistis … set on sandellis full meit Bot cast ȝour pantonis of 1584 James VI Poems I. 68/40. 1603 Montgomery Mem. II. 246.
Panttones 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 38.
Payit for a pair of orang pantenes xxx s. 1607 Argyll Acc. 13 Aug.
To my Ladie Gordoune … ane pair reid velvot pantounis 1614 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. II. 155. 1616 Stirling B. Rec. I. 144.
Pantenes 1622 Crim. Trials III. 512.
The said Margaret … in hir going to the ȝaird that nycht tynt hir pantoun 1639 Lanark B. Rec. 132. 1643 Edinb. Test. LX. 235 b.
Ane pair womanes pantones pryce thairof ix lb. 1645 Ib. LXI. 145.
Ane pair of old reid pantounes 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 155. 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1751) ii. 128.
Criques Who once at Rome, his pride to danton His nose saluted with a panton 1692 Presb. Eloq. (1738) 142.
And kiss His [Christ's] soles, not the Pope's soles … no, nor his stinking panton neither 16.. Trip and Goe Hey in Wode's Psalter (ed.) 245.
Catrein cam … With prettie pantons on her feetattrib. 1602 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 424.
xxx d. for tua pair pantoun heillis 1618-60 Lithgow Poet. Remains 20.
And vnder colour of a rare contrition, The papall panton heele I fell a kissing — 1635 Edinb. Marr. 189.
Pantonheel maker 1642 Index Edinb. Test. II. iii.
Pantoun-heilmaker 1649 Sc. Ant. VIII. 133.
Panton heillmaker