trunk hose
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.
Origin of trunk hose
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How to use trunk hose in a sentence
The headwaiter, clad in the long waistcoat and full trunk-hose of the late Seventeenth Century, bowed punctiliously.
The Penal Cluster | Ivar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)He also wears full trunk hose reaching to the knees, tight stockings, and a small, flat cap with feathers.
A Handbook of Pictorial History | Henry W. Donaldtrunk hose were stuffed with wool, rags or bran, and were made very large.
A Handbook of Pictorial History | Henry W. DonaldThe doublet had a long waist, and both it and the trunk hose were heavily slashed.
A Handbook of Pictorial History | Henry W. DonaldThey had put on foresters' clothes of green cloth, with long tunics and green trunk hose.
Robin Hood | Paul Creswick
British Dictionary definitions for trunk hose
a man's puffed-out breeches reaching to the thighs and worn with tights in the 16th century
Origin of trunk hose
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