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ˈtrunk-hose Now only Hist.
[f. trunk (n. or v.1) + hose.
The sense of ‘trunk’ here, as in the later trunk-breeches, and the earlier trunk n. 17, appears to be uncertain. Various suggestions have been made, e.g. that trunk refers to the trunk of the body, or that it is trunk n. 13, ‘a hollow tube or pipe’; or that it is = truncate or truncated, as being, as it were, cut short. Early explanations have not been found: the term may have been of vulgar origin.]
Full bag-like breeches covering the hips and upper thighs, and sometimes stuffed with wool or the like, worn in the 16th and early 17th c.
1637Heywood Royall King Epil. 9 Those Trunke-hose, which now the age doth scorn, Were all in fashion, and with frequence worne. 1694Ld. Molesworth Acc. Denmark 162 In the habit of the North-Holland Boors, with great Trunk-hose, short Doublets. 1735Byrom Jrnl. & Lit. Rem. (1855) I. ii. 616 Put on my boots and coat and trunk-hose. 1907Verney Mem. I. 53 His..trunk hose slashed and lined with dull red.
b. attrib., in sense ‘wearing trunk-hose’; hence, old-fashioned, out-of-date.
a1643W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. i. (1651) 24 The trunck⁓hose Justices will try all means To bind you to the Peace. 1647J. Berkenhead Pref. Verses in Beaumont & Fletcher's Wks. e j b, You Two thought fit To weare just Robes, and leave off Trunk-hose-Wit.
Hence † ˈtrunk-hosed a., wearing trunk-hose.
1621Fletcher Wild Goose Chase v. v, I would the trunk⁓hos'd woman would go with me. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Metall-man, 61 A Metall-man..that walking trunk-hos'd goblin. |