Hosed

Satins and silks and hoséd legs they shew; / Rich streams of cane-distilled nepenthe flow.

“You must know, Estelle dear, that when one’s”—Kathryn paused, then finished maliciously—“hosed legs and feet are half frozen it is no time to consider too rigid conventions.”

Bigly built, he looked so foolish in his puffed yellow breeches making his hosed legs seem stalk-like while he pranced and struck himself on the chest and tore the cock-feather out of his round cap and bit it in fury, spit sparkling on the shaven inch of chin between beard and underlip.

She gathered her skirts waist high to reveal slim hosed legs, a flash of pale thighs.

For this man’s eyes held a strange interest, with contempt under, and dwelt upon my hosed legs, where they met my short surcoat.

There were two graying women whose veined hosed legs below gray overcoats straddled shopping bags as they nodded toward one another wordlessly.

A revolution in men's fashions swept through courtly circles around 1340 with the introduction of the "mode nouvelle," tight-fitting outfits with a short waistcoat that left hosed legs and thighs open to view.

These much-abused devices have a noble pedigree, as the contemporary records show that French and English nobles would almost always tuck their hosed legs under such individual TV tables when it was time to eat in their châteaux.