Hose

Definitions

1. A flexible tube conveying water or other fluid.
   countable
2. A surname.
3. A stocking-like garment worn on the legs; pantyhose, women's tights.
   uncountable
4. A village in Clawson, Hose and Harby parish, Melton borough, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK7329).
5. Close-fitting trousers or breeches, reaching to the knee.
   countable, historical, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace.”

“His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]”

“[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.”

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