A slang word for trousers, which are the bags of the body. When the pattern was very staring and “loud,” they once were called howling-bags.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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