shortclothes

English

Etymology

short +‎ clothes

Noun

shortclothes pl (plural only)

1. (dated) Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees.

   Shortclothes were worn with long stockings.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shortclothes”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)