Definitions for trunk-hose

trunk-hose trunk hose

Trunk-Hose is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 531 anagrams from letters in trunk-hose (-ehknorstu).

Definitions for trunk-hose

noun

  1. full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of trunk-hose

First recorded in 1615-25

Examples for trunk-hose

The hat was a broad-brimmed beaver with a plume of feathers, and trunk hose gave way to breeches.

trunk hose were stuffed with wool, rags or bran, and were made very large.

The more shapely men displayed their symmetry in trunk hose, and here were puffs and slashes, and there a cloak and there a robe.

He was disguised as a forester with leathern jerkin and trunk hose, his long hair cropped, and his hands blackened.

His trunk hose of brown silk "remind him by their somber hue he must die."

A sum equal in purchasing power to several thousand dollars in our time is said to have been spent on one pair of trunk hose.

In this reign the chausses were made like trunk hose, and fitted tightly to the limbs.

His trunk hose, meaning those which reach from his waist to his knees, are of the finest wool.

trunk hose were appropriately named, as they were often filled with wool, bran, and other materials.

The doublet had a long waist, and both it and the trunk hose were heavily slashed.

Word Value for trunk-hose
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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