Meanings
- uncountableShort, baggy trousers that are gathered tightly at the bottom.
These pluderhose according to Carl Kohler in A History of Costume, consisted of two garments one inside the other.
1975, Elizabeth Taylor Lehman, Inconsistencies in men's hosen: a reflection on the Elizabethan age, page 543 more examples
The wide puffed and slashed sleeves and dangling baggy slops (pluderhose) of the sergeatnts (Fig. VI) and the halberdier are typical of the German landsknechte,,,
1931, Apollo - Volumes 13-14, page 318Upon his arrival in Finland the young Duke and his retinue were dressed in the German fashion favoured by the Court of the Vasas: pluderhose and loose, short Renaissance gown (Figs. 6, 19, 55).
1954, Suomen Muinaismuistoyhdistyksen aikakauskirjaThe pluderhose is likewise built on a frame of chamois leather. The panes are of black velvet, decorated like the doublet and showing off the violet taffeta.
1988, Dora Liscia Bemporad, Il Costume nell'età del Rinascimento, page 298
Origin
- GermanPluderhose
- Englishpluderhose
Borrowed from German Pluderhose.
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