capri pants

English

Etymology

Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri.

Noun

capri pants pl (plural only)

1. Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle; usually lightweight and summery.
   • 2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:

     I see women wearing capri pants nearly every day; they're not as bad as cargo capris, but they aren't the capri pants of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, either. Those 1960s capri pants were fitted.

Synonyms

• capris

Coordinate terms

• pedal pushers

Translations

casual pants for women

• French: corsaire (fr) m, pantacourt (fr) m, capri (fr) m
• German: Caprihose (de) f, Fischerhose f
• Hungarian: halásznadrág (hu)
• Portuguese: corsários m pl
• Vietnamese: quần lửng

See also

• manpris