Jodhpurs
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Jodhpurs is a noun meaning Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
Meaning
Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
Example Sentences
Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.
The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’
"What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.
All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
Word Forms
- jodhpur
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include jodhs, hose, sherryvallies, jorts, juppon, gauchos.
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