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Capri pants

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noun (used with a plural verb)
  1. women's casual trousers with a tapered leg that end above the ankle and a vertical slit at the outside bottom edge.
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Origin of Capri pants

First recorded in 1955–60; after Capri
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British Dictionary definitions for capri pants

Capri pants

Capris

pl n
  1. women's tight-fitting trousers
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Word Origin and History for capri pants

Capri pants

1956 (said to have been designed c.1948), from Capri, Italian island; so called perhaps because they were first popular in Capri, which was emerging as a European holiday destination about this time (cf. Bermuda shorts).

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