| full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| trunk hose pl.n. Short ballooning breeches, extending from the waist to midthigh, worn by men in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. [Perhaps from obsolete trunk, to cut off, from Latin truncāre; see truncate.] |