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pluderhose

pluderhose noun: short, baggy trousers that are gathered tightly at the bottom.

Noun

pluderhose (uncountable)

  1. Short, baggy trousers that are gathered tightly at the bottom.
    • The wide puffed and slashed sleeves and dangling baggy slops (pluderhose) of the sergeatnts (Fig. VI) and the halberdier are typical of the German landsknechte,,,1931, Apollo - Volumes 13-14, page 318
    • Upon his arrival in Finland the young Duke and his retinue were dressed in the German fashion favoured by the Court of the Vasas: pluderhose and loose, short Renaissance gown (Figs. 6, 19, 55).1954, Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistyksen aikakauskirja

Examples of pluderhose in a sentence

  • These pluderhose according to Carl Kohler in A History of Costume, consisted of two garments one inside the other.1975, Elizabeth Taylor Lehman, Inconsistencies in men's hosen: a reflection on the Elizabethan age, page 54:
  • The pluderhose is likewise built on a frame of chamois leather.1988, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Il Costume nell'età del Rinascimento, page 298:

Origin of pluderhose

Borrowed from German Pluderhose.

Questions about pluderhose

What does pluderhose mean?
Pluderhose means short, baggy trousers that are gathered tightly at the bottom.
How do you use pluderhose in a sentence?
These pluderhose according to Carl Kohler in A History of Costume, consisted of two garments one inside the other.
What part of speech is pluderhose?
Pluderhose is a noun.

Words near pluderhose in the dictionary

  1. pluckt
  2. plucky
  3. plucot
  4. plucots
  5. Plude
  6. pluderhose
  7. Pludes
  8. plue
  9. plues
  10. pluff
  11. pluff mud

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