trunk hose

Around the turn of the 16th century it became conventional to separate hose into two pieces, one from the waist to the crotch which fastened around the top of the legs, called trunk hose, and the other running beneath it to the foot.

The trunk hose soon reached down the thigh to fasten below the knee and were now usually called "breeches" to distinguish them from the lower-leg coverings still called hose or, sometimes stockings.

ROUND TRUNKS, trunk hose, short loose breeches reaching almost or quite to the knees.

His hands began tearing at her clothes, one hand on the ties of her linen underwear, the other on his own trunk hose.

But this, this, this foul viper and toad of the commonweal, this flouter, this sneerer, this minor satan in trunk hose and foolish smirk, shall to Tower Hill and his condign end.

"The captains of the river craft talk of a little bulbous-bottomed Dutch goblin, in trunk hose and sugar-loafed hat, with a speaking trumpet in his hand, which they say keeps about the Dunderberg."

Their own smocks made do as shirts and were tucked into trunk hose, while leggings were trimmed, rolled, and gartered.

BULLIONS, trunk hose.

Obtaining period clothing would have been impossible, but the styles of that day called for trousers to be skin-tight, which we thought might look enough like trunk hose to suffice.

Very short trunk hose were worn over cannions, fitted hose that ended above the knee.