Trunk Hose Definition
noun
Short ballooning breeches, extending from the waist to mid-thigh, worn by men in Europe in the 1500s and 1600s.
American Heritage
Full, baggy breeches reaching about halfway down the thigh, worn in the 16th and 17th cent.
Webster's New World
Origin of Trunk Hose
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Perhaps from obsolete trunk to cut off from Latin truncāre truncate
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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