trunk-breechesn.
Now historical.
With plural agreement. = trunk-hose n.
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1662 Bagshaw in Acc. Baxter's Suspension 43 The Trunk-Breeches, and Wooden Daggers of our Ancestors.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xlvi To make the..writing of Politicks..grow as much out of Fashion as the garb of Trunk-breeches.
1735 J. Byrom Jrnl. 12 June in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1855) I. ii. 621 (transcript from orig. shorthand) John..brought my trunk-breeches, which had been forgotten.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. xviii. 315 I have, ever since I was born, longed to see father in laced trunk-breeches.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. iv. 106 These were short fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk breeches.
1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. I. 489/1.
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