lederhosen
pronunciation
How to pronounce lederhosen in British English:
UK ['leɪdəˌhəʊzən]
How to pronounce lederhosen in American English:
US ['leɪdəˌhoʊzən]
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- Noun:
- leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria
Word Origin
- lederhosen (n.)
- leather shorts worn in Alpine regions, 1937, German, literally "leather trousers" (see leather and hose). Old English had cognate leðerhose. German hosen displaced Old High German bruch, from the basic Germanic word for "trousers" (see breeches).
Example
- 1. He 's clog dancing . I think . Wearing lederhosen .
- 2. To help find and print shipping documents , estimate duties and taxes , and they 're on the international scene before you can say , " lederhosen . "
- 3. Jon . Odie 's on tv . And he 's wearing lederhosen .
- 4. Sadly for the nation that brought us everything from beethoven to lederhosen , it seems that everyone agrees .
- 5. They have sprung up in converted barns in germany and elsewhere in the lederhosen belt -- switzerland , austria , liechtenstein .