sb. pl. Now only Hist. = TRUNK-HOSE.
1662. Bagshaw, in Acc. Barter’s Suspension, 43. The Trunk-Breeches, and Wooden Daggers of our Ancestors.
1691. T. H[ale], Acc. New Invent., p. xlvi. To make the … writing of Politicks … grow as much out of Fashion as the garb of Trunk-breeches.
1735. Byrom, Jrnl. & Lit. Rem. (1855), I. II. 621. John … brought my trunk-breeches, which had been forgotten.
1755. Smollett, Quix. (1803), IV. 108. I have, ever since I was born, longed to see father in laced trunk-breeches.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., VI. v. (1849), 341. These were short fat men, wearing exceeding large trunk-breeches.
1850. N. & Q., 1st Ser. I. 489/1.
