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lederhosened en · ADJ

Etymology

From lederhosen + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing lederhosen.
   • Some 36 German groups from Long Island to Philadelphia planned to make Schuetzen Park ring to the sound of German music and the dancing of lederhosened legs Sunday at the 89th annual Bavarian Folk Festival. 1962 August 26, “German Groups To Whoop It Up”, in Sunday Press, volume LXXIII, number 7, Atlantic City, N.J., page ten:
   • And after them, in glittering sequence, to sing or play or dance, Victoria de los Angeles, di Stefano, Menuhin, and apple-cheeked, wood-chopping, lederhosened Austrian yodellers, superbly squealing pipers of the Black Watch, and Spanish dancers moving in proud ritual, their castanets sizzling like cicadas. 1962 May 4, Adam Bell, “Dome of delight”, in Evening Standard, number 42,885, London, page 4, column 3:
   • The old paddle-steamer that brought the Emperor Franz Joseph to the jetty amid the cheers of dirndled maidens and lederhosened youths, still comes chuffing in. 1952, Cecil Roberts, One Year of Life: Some Autobiographical Pages, London: Hodder & Stoughton, page 161:
   • Bearded lederhosened travelers singing “Tom Dooley” in German-accented English without understanding the words; […] 1960, Pacific Telephone Magazine, page 15:
   • Actually he looks much like what is depicted in American movies as the typical pre-war Bavarian who sits goodhumoredly drinking beer out of a giant stein, bellowing ebulliently in beered-up delight as a blonde-braided girl and a lederhosened man dance to the accompaniment of a merry accordion. 1963, John Rechy, City of Night, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 264:
   • JOE MIKOLAS is the black-shirted villain, Ernie Kovacs is the “lederhosened” hero and Jolene Brand the girl in the story in this Western scene with a Swiss accent from the Ernie Kovacs special at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on Channels 7 and 12. 1961 December 9, “Westerns Dissected in Ernie Kovacs Special”, in TVue (Port Huron Times Herald), Port Huron, Mich., page seven:

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