underhose en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From under- + hose.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Hose worn underneath other clothing.
For the pocket in which Erskine kept this key was not the kind of pocket that Watt could pick. For it was no ordinary pocket, no, but a secret one, sewn on to the front of Erskine's underhose.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC: