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单词 wash-pants
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wash-pants
b. Originally U.S. Prefixed to names of garments and fabrics, with the sense ‘washable’: e.g. in wash-chamois, wash-foulard, wash-glacé kid, wash-glove, wash-gown, wash-pants, wash-ribbon, wash-silk, wash-waist.In these combinations wash is often written as if a separate adjective. Cf. washing adj.
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1888 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 23 June 6/3 Rural retreats where she can sleep ten hours out of the twenty-four, wear wash-gowns, and live out of doors all day long.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 168 He wore neckties of wash-ribbon—which, though it cost more per yard than the ordinary ribbon, I found the most inexpensive in the end—without a bark of dissatisfaction.
1914 A. Rives World's-end (ed. 6) xii A soft gown of white wash-silk fell in straight folds to her feet.
1941 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 3 July 10/7 (advt.) Mens & boys swim trunks, wash pants, slack suits, sport shirts, etc.
1972 J. Maryland in T. Kochman Rappin' & Stylin' Out 210 Red and grown out of wash pants and levis to Oleg Cassini imported mohair suits.
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