Meaning of pluderhose | Babel Free

Definitions

Short, baggy trousers that are gathered tightly at the bottom.

uncountable

Examples

“The wide puffed and slashed sleeves and dangling baggy slops (pluderhose) of the sergeatnts (Fig. VI) and the halberdier are typical of the German landsknechte,,,”

“Upon his arrival in Finland the young Duke and his retinue were dressed in the German fashion favoured by the Court of the Vasas: pluderhose and loose, short Renaissance gown (Figs. 6, 19, 55).”

“These pluderhose according to Carl Kohler in A History of Costume, consisted of two garments one inside the other.”

“The pluderhose is likewise built on a frame of chamois leather. The panes are of black velvet, decorated like the doublet and showing off the violet taffeta.”

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