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Flared trousers
Answer for the clue "Flared trousers ", 12 letters:
bell-bottoms
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. trousers with legs that flare; worn by sailors; absurdly wide hems were fashionable in the 1960s [syn: bellbottom trousers ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of trousers, 1882, from bell (n.) + bottom (n.). Distinguished in the late 1960s from flares by the shape of the expanded part (flares straight, bell-bottoms curved).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Other retro favourites are flares and bell-bottoms , such as all-in-one Barbarella-style pants suits, skimming the body down into gentle flares. ▪ The 1970s: Time of bell-bottoms , disco and Watergate. ▪ Tutivena and her Entourage, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bell-bottoms (or flares ) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context plurale tantum English) Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, particularly reminiscent of the 1970s. n. (context plurale tantum English) Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, particularly reminiscent of the 1970s.
Usage examples of bell-bottoms.
Just as he turned right at dog food, somewhat abaft of canary seed, he caught sight of a pair of floral-patterned hip-huggers with bell-bottoms, the outline of the lower rolled edge of the underpants barely discernible in relief.
Waitresses wearing matelot jerseys and bell-bottoms, many of whom remembered Georgie from the sixties, crunched around a floor littered with sea-shells and sand, making up a rum punch and putting out glasses.