hose

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  1. noun Stockings; socks. Used only in the plural.
  2. noun Close-fitting breeches or leggings reaching up to the hips and fastened to a doublet, formerly worn by men. Used only in the plural.
  3. noun Breeches reaching down to the knees. Used only in the plural.
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  • Men were in French hose and padded doublets, and sported fashionable velvet cap-hoods and ragged slashed sleeves, while unveiled women wore long Viennese gowns. —  FSFDec2003
  • A bellowslike arrangement was at one end of each cylinder, while a hose was attached to the other end The cylinders were heavy. —  058 - The Golden Peril
  • At the end of the hose is a basket, or drogue, that looks like a giant windsock. —  Slate Magazine
  • To these a hose is attached, the other end of the hose being connected with a tank which is charged with air by a pump. —  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
  • Then after it was run out an' got to the house, if there wa'n't no hose, an' Dr. Brown had to run away back to the engine house for the hose an' while he was runnin' he met John Bunyan runnin' too an' John Bunyan told him as the hose was kept coiled up in the part as sticks up behind the engine like a can. —  Susan Clegg and a Man in the House
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  1. Middle English, a stocking, from Old English hosa, leg covering; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hose, plural hosen, from Anglo-Saxon hosa, plural *hosan (glossed ‘caliga vel ocrea’) = Middle Dutch hose, Dutch hoos, hose, stocking, spout, water-spout, = Middle Low German hose, hase = Old High German hosa, Middle High German G. hose, breeches, = Icelandic hosa, a covering for the leg between the knee and ankle, a kind of gaiter, = Danish hose, plural hoser, hose, stockings. The Roman forms, Old French hose, Old Spanish huesa, OPg. osa, Italian uosa, Middle Latin hosa, osa, are of German origin; W. and Cornish hos are from English
  2. from Middle English hosen; from hose, n.
 

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