hosen
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "[T]he people all wore hosen and shoon and smocks and jupes and jerkins and wimples."
- "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, [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English hosen, from Old English hosan (“hosen, leggings, trousers”), plural of hosa (“hose, legging, stocking”); reinforced by German Hosen (“trousers, pants”). Equivalent to hose + -en (plural ending).