jodhpurs en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/ (General-American)
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- /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
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.
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
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.’
1957, V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:"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.
1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings:Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.
2019, Casey Rae, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 121:JILL [mischievously]: Ladies and gentlemen aren't naked? / ALAN: That's right! Never! ... Never! That would be disgusting! She'd have to put bowler hats on them! ... Jodhpurs!
1973, Peter Shaffer, “Act II, Scene 31”, in Equus, page 96: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.
2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| jodhpur | attributive | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
de Jodhpurhose (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · de Jodhpur (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · mi tarau peretihi (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · fi pussihousut (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · ru рейту́зы (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · gv troosyn markee (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth) · pl bryczesy (flared riding trousers of heavy cloth)