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Trousers
TrousersWhile the wealthiest male citizens in Europe wore knee breeches in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ankle-length trousers had been workingmen's attire for many years. Before the French Revolution (1789–99), the lives of the rich and poor in France grew further and further apart. The rich lived luxuriously while the poor lived in filth. To topple the tyranny of the wealthy, an angry mob stormed the Bastille, a prison in Paris, France, in 1789 to start the French Revolution. Among the mob were crowds of working people in trousers. Soon revolutionaries were referred to as sans-culottes, which meant without breeches. Trousers came to symbolize the ideas of the revolution, an effort to make French people more equal, and it was not long before men of all classes were wearing long trousers. Trousers soon replaced breeches as the standard leg wear for men in France and England and later the rest of Europe and the United States. Later in the eighteenth century, dandies, or fashionable young men, in England were wearing neatly tailored trousers with straps under the foot or buttons at the ankle. FOR MORE INFORMATIONBoucher, François. 20,000 Years of Fashion: The History of Costume and Personal Adornment. Expanded ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Perl, Lila. From Top Hats to Baseball Caps, From Bustles to Blue Jeans: Why We Dress the Way We Do. New York: Clarion Books, 1990. |
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"Trousers." Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Trousers." Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3425500363.html "Trousers." Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. 2004. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3425500363.html |
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pants
pants / pants/ • pl. n. 1. trousers: baggy corduroy pants | [as adj.] (pant) his pant leg. 2. Brit. underpants. PHRASES: catch someone with their pants down inf. catch someone in an embarrassingly unprepared state. fly (or drive) by the seat of one's pants inf. rely on instinct rather than logic or knowledge. scare (or bore, etc.) the pants off someone inf. make someone extremely scared, bored, etc. wear the pants inf. be the dominant partner in a relationship: there's no doubt who'll wear the pants in that house. |
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"pants." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "pants." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-pants.html "pants." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-pants.html |
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trousers
trou·sers / ˈtrouzərz/ (also a pair of trousers) • pl. n. an outer garment covering the body from the waist to the ankles, with a separate part for each leg. DERIVATIVES: trou·sered / -zərd/ adj. |
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"trousers." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "trousers." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-trousers.html "trousers." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-trousers.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "trousers." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "trousers." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trousers.html T. F. HOAD. "trousers." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trousers.html |
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pants
pants XIX. Shortening of pl. of PANTALOON.
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T. F. HOAD. "pants." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "pants." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-pants.html T. F. HOAD. "pants." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-pants.html |
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pants
pants •congrats, stats
•ersatz • Graz
•godets, Metz, pantalettes (US pantalets)
•Odets
•Bates, Fates, Gates, Trucial States, United States, Yeats
•annates
•eats, Keats
•foresheets
•Biarritz, blitz, Fritz, glitz, it's, its, Ritz, spitz, spritz, St Kitts
•blewits • Colditz • rickets • giblets
•Austerlitz • Chemnitz • Leibniz
•Massachusetts • slivovitz
•Clausewitz • Auschwitz • Horowitz
•Golan Heights • house lights
•footlights
•Scots, Watts
•Cinque Ports, orts, quartz
•undershorts
•thereabouts, whereabouts
•Coats, John o'Groats, Oates
•Hakenkreuz
•cahoots, Schütz
•slyboots
•kibbutz, Lutz, Perutz, putz
•futz, klutz, Smuts
•Roberts • polyunsaturates
•deserts, Hertz
•megahertz • kilohertz • outskirts
•Weltschmerz
•draughts (US drafts)
•Helmholtz • schmaltz
•Schulz
•Hants, Northants, pants
•sweatpants • smarty-pants
•shin splints • Mainz • Y-fronts
•arrondissements • Barents
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"pants." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "pants." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-pants.html "pants." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-pants.html |
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