Hosen vs Hoses - What's the difference?
hosen | hoses |
(poetic, historical, archaic)
* Bible, Daniel iii. 21
*1877 , Golden Hours:
*1979 , George G. Coulton, Five centuries of religion: The last days of medieval monachism :
*2009 , Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Daily Life in Elizabethan England :
*2014 , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems :
Coverings for the legs; trousers; pants.
*1857 , The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
*1862 , Gustav Freytag, Pictures of German Life in the XVth,XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries :
*1990 , Ellen J. Gehret, Rural Pennsylvania Clothing :
*2004 , Margaret Frazer, The Hunter's Tale :
*2005 , Adam McCune, Keith McCune, The Rats of Hamelin :
*2009 , The Old Testament Made Easier:
*2014 , Karen Chance, Masks :
As nouns the difference between hosen and hoses
is that hosen is "pants/trousers" while hoses is .As a verb hoses is
(hose).hosen
English
Noun
(head)- 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, [...]
- 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, [...]
- 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.
- The invisible cord ... I followed him down a narrow path with a rippling lake of grain on each side, wheat stalks brushing my hosen .
- Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen [pants, trousers], and their hats, and their other garments, […]
- These hosen have saggy butt.” “Don't touch yourself,” Paulo hissed, slapping Jerome's hand away. “I wasn't touching myself, I was trying to pull up these damned—” “Don't touch your clothing, either! Don't touch anything!”