Capri pants

Origin

Capri pants

noun (used with a plural verb)
women's casual trousers with a tapered leg that end above the ankle and a vertical slit at the outside bottom edge.

Origin:
1955–60; after Capri
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Capri pants is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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Capri pants or Capris
 
pl n
women's tight-fitting trousers
 
Capris or Capris
 
pl n

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Capri pants
1956 (said to have been designed c.1948), from Capri, It. island; so called perhaps because they were first popular in Capri, which was emerging as a European tourist destination about this time (cf. Bermuda shorts).
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