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trunk hose

NOUN
  1. puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose

How To Use trunk hose In A Sentence

  • This definition for ‘hose’ on this site says that ‘men [wore] hose in two parts… The upper hose have a number of fashionable variations including French ‘round’ hose, trunk hose, slops, venetians, canions, and galligaskins.’
  • Milan, not in trunk hose and slashed sleeves, nor in "French standing collar, treble quadruple daedalian ruff, or stiff-necked rabato, that had more arches for pride, propped up with wire and timber, than five Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
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