Definition of "hosen"

These men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Daniel 3:21

And I hoped that in youth the good path may be chosen By each little man who may chance wear these hosen.

1877, Golden Hours, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

It has crept up the leg and become hose, and it is made no longer of leather but of cloth. Gradually these hosen became longer and longer, until they joined at the top into one garment, which betrayed its dual origin by keeping the plural [...]

1979, George G. Coulton, Five centuries of religion: The last days of medieval monachism

Francis the Schoolboy Margaret, give me my hosen; dispatch I pray you.

2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Daily Life in Elizabethan England

[...] and the shape of the horrible swollen members, that seem like to the malady of hernia, in the wrapping of their hosen, and eke the buttocks of them, [...]

2014, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems

At the court of the Kaiser I born was and bred ; and there my hosen and jerkin were made ; […]

1857, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

Then I searched the pocket of my hosen and found a little knife, such as could be closed, which they had not chosen to take, [...]

1862, Gustav Freytag, Pictures of German Life in the XVth,XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries

This figure actually wears mail hosen, but others substituted scale or else wore no armour on the legs at all.

1978, Ian Heath, Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300, page 209

They differed in the length of the leg but were generally similar in the cut at the top... By 1770, they bought new hosen.

1990, Ellen J. Gehret, Rural Pennsylvania Clothing

And the doublet is long enough it hid most of the blood-spattered part of my hosen and they were dark enough the blood didn't much show after I'd rubbed some dirt over them.

2004, Margaret Frazer, The Hunter's Tale

The invisible cord ... I followed him down a narrow path with a rippling lake of grain on each side, wheat stalks brushing my hosen.

2005, Adam McCune, Keith McCune, The Rats of Hamelin

Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen [pants, trousers], and their hats, and their other garments, […]

2009, The Old Testament Made Easier

These hosen have saggy butt.” “Don't touch yourself,” Paulo hissed, slapping Jerome's hand away. “I wasn't touching myself, I was trying to pull up these damned—” “Don't touch your clothing, either! Don't touch anything!”

2014, Karen Chance, Masks