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jodhpurs

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"Riding trousers"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/Part of speech nounSorted dhjoprsuStarts with JEnds with S1 clues
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Definitions

  1. (used in the plural) flared trousers ending at the calves; worn with riding boots

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • "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.
  • 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.’
  • Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.

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