Jodhpurs

Definitions

Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“"What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.”

“The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get⟳ on. You see⟳ how these waiters behaving? And they black like⟳ hell too, you know⟳.’”

“All the portraits that hang⟳ on the walls of the living room are, I realize⟳, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.”

“Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.”

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