Trunk Hose

The party didn't even have any official position on how the state should define a union between a codpiece and some trunk-hose. ❋ Jilly Gagnon (2010)

Hakon looked up as a tall man in trunk-hose, boots and scarlet cloak entered the taproom. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

Worldly – Wiseman alone, by some inexplicable quirk, stands before Christian in laced hat, embroidered waistcoat, and trunk-hose. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For my part, I expect to see the use of trunk-hose and buttered ale ascribed to the influence of the feudal system. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Let not thy breeches be too tight, or hang too loose about thy thighs, like the trunk-hose of our ancestors. — ❋ Unknown (2003)

All which plainly shews, may it please your worships, that the decay of eloquence, and the little good service it does at present, both within and without doors, is owing to nothing else in the world, but short coats, and the disuse of trunk-hose. — ❋ Unknown (2003)

TWENTY-ONE Mary smoothed down her doublet and turned her foot this way and that, studying the way her leg looked in the wine-coloured trunk-hose. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

Mary smoothed down her doublet and turned her foot this way and that, studying the way her leg looked in the wine-coloured trunk-hose. ❋ George, Margaret (1987)

The headwaiter, clad in the long waistcoat and full trunk-hose of the late Seventeenth Century, bowed punctiliously. ❋ Randall Garrett (1957)

_Trunck Breeches_ (No. 24.p. 384.), more commonly called "trunk-hose," were short wide breeches reaching a little above, or sometimes below the knees, stuffed with hair, and striped. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the _praeludium_ to Goffe's "Careless Shepherdess," 1656, quarto, there is a panegyric on them, and some concern is shown for the fool's absence in the play itself, while it is stated that "The motley coat was banished with trunk-hose." ❋ R. J. Broadbent (N/A)

The monstrous hat and prodigious feather, the enormous ruff and exaggerated trunk-hose, contrasting with a frame shrivelled and wizened, all belonged to a century previous. ❋ Various (N/A)

Her successes have varied inversely as the length of her trunk-hose. ❋ Various (N/A)

As many generations as they can; but not all generations: ah no, when our swallow-tail has become fantastic as trunk-hose, they will cease to amuse! ❋ Unknown (1909)