Capri pants

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 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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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