ˈtrunk-ˌbreeches, n. pl. Now only Hist.
= trunk-hose.
| 1662 Bagshaw in Acc. Baxter's Suspension 43 The Trunk-Breeches, and Wooden Daggers of our Ancestors. 1691 T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xlvi, To make the..writing of Politicks..grow as much out of Fashion as the garb of Trunk-breeches. 1735 Byrom Jrnl. & Lit. Rem. (1855) I. ii. 621 John..brought my trunk-breeches, which had been forgotten. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 108, I have, ever since I was born, longed to see father in laced trunk⁓breeches. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. vi. v. (1849) 341 These were short fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk-breeches. 1850 N. & Q. 1st Ser. I. 489/1. |