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单词 half-hose
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half-hose
half-hose n. (originally) †short breeches (obsolete); (subsequently) short stockings or socks.
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1580 G. Harvey in E. Spenser & G. Harvey Three Proper & Wittie Lett. 36 Largebelled Kodpeasd Dublet, vnkodpeased halfe hose.
1674 S. Speed Fragmenta Carceris sig. F2 Some came with Shooes, that fear'd to touch the ground; Some with half-hose, to shew their shins were sound.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588 Lambs-wool and Cashmere hose and half-hose.
1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 83 Enormous lengths were machine-knitted into hose and half-hose.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 21 Sept. (Weekend section) 11 A fine example of the gentlemen's half-hose in subdued black, earth or grey.
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1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588 Lambs-wool and Cashmere hose and half-hose.
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half-hose
half-hose n. (see hose n. 1a(c)).
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half-hose
(c) collective plural hose. In modern use: stockings reaching to the knee. half-hose: short stockings or socks.From hose (as if = hoes), a false singular ho, stocking, is found in Scottish.
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1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8013 Is chanberlein him broȝte..Amorewe uor to werie a peire hosen [v.rr. hoses, hose] of say.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 31 Þai putte off þaire hose and þaire schone.
1538 Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) To pay him x sh. & the wtter part of a pair of hoyss.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1567) 82 b Some..go with their hose out at heles.
1579 in T. Thomson Coll. Inventories Royal Wardrobe (1815) 282 Ten howis sewit with reid silk, grene silk and blak silk.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 72 Hee beeing in loue, could not see to garter his hose . View more context for this quotation
1660 Acts Council Rutherglen in D. Ure Hist. Rutherglen (1793) 65 A paire of shooes and hoise.
1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green ii. 21 Her left Leg Ho was flung.
1776–81 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall lxv. (R.) The legs and feet were clothed in long hose and open sandals.
1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard 193 His shoon was four pound weight a-piece; On ilka leg a ho had he.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 588 Merino hose, half-hose, and socks.
1892 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) Wrought-hose, a very elastic class of hosiery made wholly upon a hand-machine.
figurative.1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 59 We must put on the Hose of Faith.
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