trunk hose

In Spain nethersocks were widely worn by men with trunk hose.

Some of the breeches were being stuffed with cotton; this practice developed into trunk hose, fashionable among the spanish troops.

Trunk hose or round hose were short padded hose.

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

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

Trunk hose could be paned or pansied, with strips of fabric (panes) over a full inner layer or lining.

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

Trunk hose were longer than in the previous period, and were pear-shaped, with less fullness at the waist and more at mid-thigh.

BULLIONS, trunk hose.

Apostles, saints, and prophets wear the contemporary costume, and Jonah, when thrown to the hungry whale, wears doublet and trunk hose.

Frequently, these galligaskins, trunk hose and Rhinegraves had slits to reveal a contrasting fabric lining, and were paired with short doublet or jerkin.

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.

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

Fashionable leg coverings for men consisted of trunk hose or breeches and nethersocks (modern stockings) The two were fastened together by a number of decorated ties called points.

Ordinary trunk hose could only be worn with 'canions' These were breeches worn underneath the trunk hose and reaching to the knee.

His outfits vary; garments include a red waistcoat (inspired by the red cloak that bishops wore), Flemish trunk hose, a blue three-cornered hat, yellow stockings and a broad-brimmed hat.

A larger intercooler and Silicone Trunk hose connectors will help to keep induction temperatures down and give significant increases in the volumetric efficency leading to further increases in performance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In American English, the term is sometimes used to refer to trunk hose, defined by the Collins American English Dictionary as "full, baggy breeches reaching about halfway down the thigh, worn in the 16th and 17th cent."

G Paned or pansied trunk hose or round hose, padded hose with strips of fabric (panes) over a full inner layer or lining, were worn early in the period, over cannions, fitted hose that ended above the knee.

The formerly arrogant Finnish face had gone pinched and blotchy, the blond hair hung lank beneath a jaunty cap, and the once powerful body was shrunken within a costume that mimicked Italian Renaissance styling with its puffed sleeves, trunk hose, and codpiece.

For a start, I was dressed in big, puffy knee-length trunk hose and tights with a giant codpiece, all attached to my doublet so that I couldn't wee without getting totally naked: less of a problem than you might think, since I wasn't drinking a single cup of tea or coffee, neither having yet arrived in England.