jodhpurs

attributive jodhpur

1. pluralplural onlyFlared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.

   Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.

   2019, Casey Rae, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 121

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   "What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.

   1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings

   The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’

   1957, V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN

   JILL [mischievously]: Ladies and gentlemen aren't naked? / ALAN: That's right! Never! ... Never! That would be disgusting! She'd have to put bowler hats on them! ... Jodhpurs!

   1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 31”, in Equus, page 96

   All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.

   2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa