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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(poetic, historical, archaic) plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings).
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, [...]
Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen [pants, trousers], and their hats, and their other garments, […]
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, [...]
Use hosen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hosen means (poetic, historical, archaic) plural of hose (the old-fashioned garment; stockings).
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.
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