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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lederhosen

leather shorts worn in Alpine regions, 1937, German, literally "leather trousers" (see leather and hose). Old English had cognate leĆ°erhose. German hosen displaced Old High German bruch, from the basic Germanic word for "trousers" (see breeches).

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lederhosen

n. knee-breeches made of leather

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lederhosen

n. leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria

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Lederhosen

Lederhosen ( German for leather breeches; singular in German usage: Lederhose) are breeches made of leather; they may be either short or knee-length. The longer ones are generally called Bundhosen or Kniebundhosen.

The German pronunciation is , and the English pronunciation is .

Usage examples of "lederhosen".

He spotted three men in lederhosen lean over to blow on alpenhorns, sending their melancholy mooing out over the valley.

The smiling officials inside the hut were now wearing kitschy lederhosen shorts and perky hats as they greeted a visitor - but the gun-metal eyes were the same.

Edge found Florian in conference with a gathering of men and women of various ages, the men in dusty-green lederhosen, the women mostly in varicolored dirndls.

He spotted three men in lederhosen lean over to blow on alpenhorns, sending their melancholy mooing out over the valley.

Along the way they saw groups of young people in national dress, the boys in lederhosen and feathered loden hats, the girls in dirndls, who waved and called greetings as the two big motor cars sped past.

Happy burghers in lederhosen, smiling frauleins in dirndls and pigtails and wooden shoes, cottages draped in swastika bunting.

After the short and simple Calvinistic ceremony that Uncle Tromp conducted, there was an al fresco wedding banquet provided by Colonel Boldt, under the trees, with a four-piece band wearing Tyrolean hats and lederhosen.

He was waiting to invite Kitty and her team through to the beer garden of the hotel where a traditional oom-pa-pa band in Lederhosen and alpine hats was belting out a medley of German drinking songs.

Whenever some passerby or farm worker stopped to gape at the sight of the train, he or she would shout a greeting in Italian, but he would be wearing lederhosen and she a dirndl.

They had grown even more clannish in the generation since, which showed in the tall ceramic steins along the walls, plastic wainscoting that made a valiant attempt to imitate fumed oak, and a human bartender in wooden shoes, lederhosen, and a beard clipped closer on one side than the other.

Although Venice is the one town in the world that can swallow up a hundred thousand tourists as easily as it can a thousand - hiding them down its side-streets, using them for crowd scenes on the piazzas, stuffing them into the vaporetti - it is still better to share Venice with the minimum number of packaged tours and Lederhosen.