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Definition of Trunk hose
1. Noun. Puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hose.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trunk Hose
Literary usage of Trunk hose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"a term applied to trunk-hose, puffed out at the upper part, in several folds. '
His bastard bullions', Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, iv. ..."
2. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... ?d trunk hose (see pp. 133, 134). In a curious old ballad a ly is described— "His
stockings were of silken soy, Wi' garters hanging doune " (Percy's ..."
3. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"... had done his own work at the same time, by turning my uncle Toby's Virtue
thereupon into nothing but empty bottles, tripes, trunk-hose, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"About 1600 the word breeches came into use to indicate the trunk-hose, ...
The nether stocks, now entirely exposed to view, were attached to the trunk-hose. ..."
5. One Year in Sweden: Including a Visit to the Isle of Götland by Horace Marryat (1862)
"... mines — Dr. Clarke's pancake — The outlawed knight — A rat in duke's trunk hose
... trunk hose ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"2. Bandage (for hernia), support, apparatus. Truss, va I, Bind, pack close, pack
up, bind up, put up, cram. T. (Arck.) Shaft of a column. Trunk-hose, я. ..."
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