Stockings, or stockings and breeches both in one. French, chausses. There were the haut de chausses and the bas de chausses.
“Their points being broken, down fell their hose.”—Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., ii. 4.
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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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