Definitions
Etymologies
- bloomer + -s (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This anxiety over bloomers is evident in an 1889 article describing a women's athletic club.”
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
“A Sterling Cycle Works ad read, For Bloomers: Ladies who cycle in bloomers will find The Sterling the ideal Bicycle.”
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
“I hate the phrase late bloomers ," our gawky heroine laments.”
“She clearly doesn't know that in English bloomers means big pants or mistakes.”
“This book will be in the new type with a fresh set of historiated 'bloomers' designed by C.R. ASHBEE. 250 copies.”
“Leech had a picture of "A Quiet Smoke" in _Punch_, which depicted five ladies in short wide skirts and "bloomers" in a tobacconist's shop, two smoking cigars and one a pipe, while "one of the inferior animals" behind the counter was selling tobacco.”
“The languid one commented upon the female fetich, the skirt, and condemned "bloomers," whereupon Glory declared that they were just charming, and being challenged (by a gentleman) for her reasons she said, "Because when a girl's got them on she feels as if she's an understudy for a man, and may even have a chance of playing the part itself in another and a better world.”
“We won't wear "bloomers," or make any attempt to imitate you in our dress, manners, or occupations; we will do nothing to offend the most fastidious, we will be women still.”
“Jetson's robot maid, the magazine says, while Bonham Carter, who says her favorite items of clothing is her "bloomers," is inspired by Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette.”
“In 1848, "bloomers," a radical departure in women's clothing, were introduced to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. They were named after Amelia Jenks”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bloomers’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Quirkstyle
Fashion elegance, oddities, styles, and cool garments.
tatterdemalion, froufrou, gingham, argyle, corset, hoop skirt, pantaloons, bloomers, jaunty, seersucker, twill, ganguro and 126 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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roseandivy's list
mooncalf, wonted, gibbet, artless, noontide, blithe, glitterati, vorpal, soporific, moxie, pilfer, betwixt and between and 263 more...
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deegee's Words
pay-per-view, vitriol, delectable, snarky, unflinching, forsake, pervasive, inconsequential, unnerving, allure, endearing, unalloyed and 414 more...
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
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imProper
zeppelin, china, japan, mercedes, champagne, burgundy, madeira, bourbon, turkey, cognac, tequila, madras and 13 more...
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Gypsy
tambura, tambourine, lute, fiddle, mandolin, pan's pipes, amulet, bloomers, bodice, chemise, diklo, sash and 13 more...
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eponymous fabrics or articles of clot...
several of these characters seem to have been involved in the Crimean War
cardigan, balbriggan, balaclava, raglan, macintosh, madras, cashmere, angora, denim, oxford, wigan, bloomers and 24 more...
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People Who Became Words
From a Section in "How To Increase Your Word Power"
maverick, august, bloomers, bobby, boycott, chauvinism, dahlia, epicure, guillotine, nicotine, quisling, shrapnel
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surprisingly eponymous
words that derive from personal names, though you might not have guessed it
rodomontade, celadon, galvanize, diesel, sideburns, bloomers, chauvinism, quixotic, epicurean, sandwich, chesterfield, gerrymander and 76 more...
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my grandmother's words
reprobate, rambunctious, seamstress, chores, normal school, aggravating, bloomers, homely
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bloomers.
brtom "Ladies' grey flannelette bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13 Jan 14, 2007