trunk hose

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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trunk hose British  

noun

1. a man's puffed-out breeches reaching to the thighs and worn with tights in the 16th century

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Etymology

Origin of trunk hose

First recorded in 1615–25

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Example Sentences

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trunk hose

Ford recounts how, in the same year that Walweyn was arrested, Thomas Bradshaw was marched home through the streets with his trunk hose deflated and de-poofed, the stuffing torn out.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2021

In this composition, Paris, in trunk hose, is carrying off the fair Helen pickaback, notwithstanding the evident clamor raised by the assembled court ladies, who are attired in very full skirts and mediaeval headdresses.

From Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Such brightness of figured kerchiefs, homespun petticoats, trunk hose, jackets, sashes!

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

As a youngster, I liked to think that I was sitting on the identical benches occupied, more than three hundred years earlier, by Elizabethan youths in trunk hose and doublets.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

He had the enormous trunk hose, heretofore mentioned as the distinguishing peculiarity of the costume of the period, and wore black velvet shoes, ornamented with white roses.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

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