| 单词 | pair of drawers |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspair of drawers 10. In plural. A short-legged loose-fitting item of underwear or similar article of clothing covering the lower torso and upper part of the legs; underpants. In early use and later regional use also: †stockings (obsolete). Also in pair of drawers. Cf. knickers n. 2. Now dated or humorous.In quot. 16112 in singular: one of a pair of stockings (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > wide or loose slops1481 shipman's hose1540 slop1560 shipman's breek1563 drawers1567 kelsouns1568 scaling1577 scavilones1577 scabilonian1600 calzoons1615 linings1631 swabber-slopsa1658 pantaloon1686 underslops1737 trousers1773 pyjamas1801 Cossacks1820 Turkish trousers1821 hakama1822 salwar1824 slacks1824 sherwal1844 overall1845 bag1853 sack-pants1856 bloomer1862 trouser skirt1883 petticoat trousers1885 mompe1908 step-in1922 bombachas1936 baggies1962 jams1966 palazzo1970 hose- 1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. G.iii Here I set before thee..the leud lousey language of these lewtering Luskes... Which language they terme Peddelars Frenche... A commission, a shierte. drawers, hosen. stampers, shooes. 1576 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 378 A paire of drawers of mockadoo. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Brayes, short (and close) breeches, drawers, or vnderhose, of linnen, &c. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues House, a drawer, or course stocking worne ouer a finer, by countrey people. 1655 Ld. Newbrugh Let. May in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 290 I haue sent an Indian gowne and stuff for drawers. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 326 The first piece of my dresse is a pair of drawers, very full, that reach to my shoes. 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 66 Cricket, nimble boy and light, In slippers red and drawers white. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 337 Knee cords and tops, superseded nankeen drawers and rosetted shoes. 1893 A. Sinclair & W. Henry Swimming (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 374 A skin-tight costume..with bathing-drawers underneath of silk. 1938 R. Wright Big Boy Leaves Home in Uncle Tom's Children (1991) 239 Yo mama don wear no drawers. 2000 Weekly World News 27 June 31/1 Fun-loving Jason dropped his drawers and mooned them just for laughs. < as lemmas |
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