Meanings
- datedpluralplural onlyunderpants.
He was quite an imposing spectacle in his bare feet, with his trousers rolled up to his great knees, thereby revealing his scarlet flannel underdrawers.
1919, Peter B. Kyne, Captain Scraggs3 more examples
They put on her a purple vest, thickly embroidered with gold and pearls, underdrawers of scarlet silk, and gauze trousers (such as Eastern women wear) of many folds.
1901, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-NayThen, his laughter suddenly booming out he bunched his muscles and a black haired giant of a man in shirt and underdrawers was jerked floundering out of his bunk to the middle of the room.
1916, Jackson Gregory, The Short CutHis extra shirt, instead of being wadded into the fore-end of the saddlebag on top of a pair of socks, had been stuffed into the hinder end on top of a pair of underdrawers.
1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range
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