Bloomers

Quick meaning: Bloomers is a noun meaning (informal) Women’s underpants with short legs; knickers or drawers.

Meaning

(informal) Women’s underpants with short legs; knickers or drawers.

More Meanings

1. plural of bloomer
2. (dated) Any of several forms of women’s divided garment for the lower body.

Example Sentences

Ladies’ grey flannelette bloomers, three shillings a pair, astonishing bargain. Plain and loved, loved for ever, they say.

Moreover, the family realized perfectly that Alix would have clipped her thick hair, and taken to bloomers or knickerbockers outright, […]

But the truth was, her pantaloons came down to her ankles, and when she got the leg of one caught in a twig, she nearly fainted [...] "If you will be in these sort of adventures, you should wear bloomers."

Fanny, knowing this, had made up her mind to go straight to Horn & Udell. Now, Horn & Udell are responsible for the bloomers your small daughter wears under her play frock, in place of the troublesome and extravagant petticoat of the old days.

Word Forms

• bloomer

Synonyms for bloomers

Depending on context, synonyms include drawers, knickers, pants.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pants, drawers, knickers, trouserettes, pettiloon, trouserette.

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