plural. Wide baggy breeches or hose, of the kind commonly worn in the 16th and early 17th cent.; loose trousers, esp. those worn by sailors. Now…

a sailor's wide trousers; (often figurative) a statement of wide application that can be turned to fit any case.

singular in the same sense, or denoting only one leg of the garment. Obsolete.

= shipman's hose n.

In plural. A short-legged loose-fitting item of underwear or similar article of clothing covering the lower torso and upper part of the legs…

Drawers, linen trousers.

Some kind of garment.

With plural agreement. ‘Long drawers worn under the hose by men in Queen Elizabeth's time’ (J. R. Planché Cycl. Costume 1876, I. 447).

A contemptuous term for some kind of garment.

With plural agreement. In Turkey and the Middle East: drawers, hose, trousers.

plural. Drawers; underclothing. dialect.

? a sailor's wide breeches or garments resembling them.

Trousers, breeches, or drawers. Usually in plural. Long, light, baggy trousers of a kind worn by men and women of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.

(under-, prefix1 affix 2b(a).)

A style of trousers (sense 2a) typically cut relatively full and loose in the leg but tapering to a close fit at the ankles, worn in some South…

Originally: loose trousers, usually of silk or cotton, tied round the waist, and worn by both sexes in some Asian and Middle Eastern countries…

plural. Baggy trousers, pleated into a waistband. Also Cossack trousers.

baggy pantaloons.

A pair of wide, loose trousers with pleats at the waist worn in Japan, now chiefly as part of formal dress or by practitioners of Japanese martial…

Loose trousers worn by both sexes in some South Asian countries, esp. those worn by women together with a kameez.

plural. Trousers. Now spec. loosely-cut trousers for informal wear, esp. those worn by women.

A kind of loose trousers worn in various Asiatic countries.

Chiefly in plural. Protective trousers or leggings; spec. Loose-fitting trousers, frequently with a bib and strap top, worn by manual workers and…

figurative. Clothes that hang loosely about the wearer; (colloquial) trousers. plural.

loosely fitting trousers.

Regularly in plural. Loose trousers reaching to the knee or knickerbockers worn by women for bicycling, gymnasium practice, etc.; called also…

any of various garments combining features of both trousers and skirts; esp. a style of wide-legged trousers resembling a loose flowing skirt (e.g…

†(a) U.S. colloquial, (in New England) a name for wide baggy trousers (cf. petticoat breeches n.) (obsolete); (b) = sense 4b; (c) applied to the…

With plural and (occasionally) singular agreement. Baggy working trousers worn in Japan, esp. by women.

A garment or shoe put on by stepping into it; spec. in plural, loose drawers (more recently, brief panties) for women (chiefly U.S.).

With plural agreement. The characteristic baggy trousers, tied in at the ankles on men and at the knees on boys, worn in some South American…

In plural. Baggy shorts (or trousers cut off above the knee) worn over swimming trunks by surfers; swimming trunks in this style. Also, such…

With plural agreement. A garment, derived from pyjamas, n., worn as leisure-wear, and spec. as a type of swimming-trunks.

Loose, wide-legged trousers worn by women. Usually in plural. Cf. sense B.

Sometimes: an article of clothing for the legs and loins, = breeches, drawers; esp. in phrase doublet, n.… shipman's hose (see shipman, n.…