jodhpurs
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Etymology
[edit]1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: jodh‧purs
Noun
[edit]jodhpurs pl (plural only, attributive jodhpur)
- Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
- 1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings[1]:
- "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.
- 1957, V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
- 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.’
- 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
- 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.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]flared riding trousers of heavy cloth
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