hosen

noun

1. (archaic, form-of, historical, plural, poetic)plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings)

   “These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.”

   “And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen.”

   “It has crept up the leg and become hose, and it is made no longer of leather but of cloth. Gradually these hosen became longer and longer, until they joined at the top into one garment, which betrayed its dual origin by keeping the plural [...]”

   “Francis the Schoolboy Margaret, give me my hosen; dispatch I pray you.”

   “[...] and the shape of the horrible swollen members, that seem like to the malady of hernia, in the wrapping of their hosen, and eke the buttocks of them, [...]”

2. (plural, plural-only)Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.

   “At the court of the Kaiser I born was and bred ; and there my hosen and jerkin were made ; […]”

   “Then I searched the pocket of my hosen and found a little knife, such as could be closed, which they had not chosen to take, [...]”

   “This figure actually wears mail hosen, but others substituted scale or else wore no armour on the legs at all.”

   “They differed in the length of the leg but were generally similar in the cut at the top. ... By 1770, they bought new hosen.”

   “And the doublet is long enough it hid most of the blood-spattered part of my hosen and they were dark enough the blood didn't much show after I'd rubbed some dirt over them.”