jodhpurs

English

jodhpurs

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/

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• Hyphenation: jodh‧purs

Noun

jodhpurs pl (plural only)

1. Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
   • 1933, Dorothy Wayne [pseudonym; Noel Everingham Sainsbury], Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings‎^[1]:

     "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.

   • 1957, V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     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.’

   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     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.

   • 2019, Casey Rae, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 121:

     Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.

Derived terms

• jods, jodhs

Related terms

• Jodhpur

Translations

flared riding trousers of heavy cloth

• Finnish: pussihousut (fi) pl
• German: Jodhpur f, Jodhpurhose f
• Manx: troosyn markee m pl
• Maori: tarau peretihi
• Polish: bryczesy (pl) m pl