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short-hose
a. A kind of stocking reaching only a short distance up the leg.
†b. (With capital initial.) Used as a rendering of Curt hose. Obs.
a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxii. 245 Robert, the eldest sone of Kynge Wyllyam, the whiche was surnamed Curthose, or Shorthose. 1530Palsgr. 267/1 Schorte hose, chausse courte. 1880J. Hay Pike Co. Ballads 61 Women that shorthose wore. |