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plus fours|plʌs ˈfɔəz|
[f. plus 3 + four a. and n., since, to produce the overhang, four inches is normally added to the length required for ordinary knickerbockers.]
A distinctive style of long, wide knickerbockers, or a suit having such knickerbockers, originally much worn by golfers and associated with outdoor pursuits. Also transf. and attrib. (Also in form plus-four).
1920Isis 25 Feb. 6/2 (caption) ‘Plus Fours’. Ibid. 12 May 10/2 The desuetude of the traditional grey flannel ‘bags’ of the undergraduate... ‘Plus fours’ have succeeded them. 1921Isis 1 June p. xii, Knicker (plus four) Suits from 8½ gns. 1922J. Cannan Misty Valley 201 A tall man in plus fours and a yellow waistcoat. 1923S. Herd My Golfing Life 151 The first time I saw a golfer wearing baggy ‘plus 4's’ I thought he looked like a lassie. 1928Sat. Evening Post 10 Mar. 174/3 You can almost visualize the venerable Francis Joseph tweaking away at his plus⁓four whiskers. 1929H. A. Vachell Virgin ix. 154 The Major got himself up ‘to kill’, wearing a new suit of ‘plus fours’. 1934G. B. Shaw Village Wooing ii. 119 He is in hiking costume..but wears well cut breeches (not plus fours) instead of shorts. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) i. 30 In topee, surcingle, solascarf and plaid, plus fours, puttees and bulldog boots. 1951N. M. Gunn Well at World's End xix. 152 He wore a plusfour suiting of discreet checks and unpronounced bagginess. 1961C. Willock Death in Covert i. 13 He wore knicker-bocker trousers that..were nearly plus-fours: say, plus-threes. 1972Country Life 12 Oct. 926/2 Rust battle-jacket with plus⁓fours in Shetland tweed. By Christian Dior Monsieur. 1974‘P. B. Yuill’ Bornless Keeper ii. 19 Wood-pigeons strutted like fat old squires in plus fours. 1978G. Sims Rex Mundi xxvi. 156 He was dressed in a brown plus⁓fours suit. |