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Definitions
A flexible tube used to carry water or other fluid.
Word origin
From Middle English hose (“leggings, hose”), from Old English hose, hosa (“hose, leggings”), from Proto-West Germanic *hosā, from Proto-Germanic *husǭ (“coverings, leggings, trousers”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”).
Used in a sentence
“Theſe men were bound in their coates, their hoſen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were caſt into the midſt of the burning fierie furnace.”
“His youthful hoſe, vvell ſaved, a vvorld too vvide / For his ſhrunk ſhank, […]”
“[T]wenty yeomen, two and two, / In hosen black, and jerkins blue, / With falcons broider'd on each breast, / Attended on their lord's behest.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Flexible water tube”4 letters
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