Leather shorts, often with suspenders, worn by men and boys, especially in Bavaria.
[German, from Middle High German lederhose : leder, leather (from Old High German ledar) + hose, trousers (from Old High German hosa).]
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Leather shorts, often with suspenders, worn by men and boys, especially in Bavaria.
[German, from Middle High German lederhose : leder, leather (from Old High German ledar) + hose, trousers (from Old High German hosa).]
| WordNet: lederhosen |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and obys in Bavaria
| Wikipedia: Lederhosen |
Lederhosen ("leather trousers" in German; singular: "Lederhose") are knee-breeches (knickerbockers or shorts) made of leather.
The word Lederhosen is frequently misspelled Leiderhosen (literally, "sadly-breeches"), or Liederhosen ("songs-breeches"). The proper German pronunciation is /leːdə.hoːzən/. In English both /ˈleɪdɚhoʊzən/ and ˈliːdɚhoʊzən are used.
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Traditionally, lederhosen were worn by Germanic men of the Alpine and surrounding regions, including Austria, the highlands and mountains of Southern Germany, the German-speaking part of Italy's province of Bolzano-Bozen (formerly part of Austria until after World War I) but not Switzerland. The areas in Western Austria and Northern Italy are known as Tyrol and lederhosen are a characteristic of this region.
La Couturière Parisienne, however, claims that lederhosen were not originally only a Bavarian garment, but that they had been worn all over Europe, especially by riders, hunters and others—and not only by the peasant folk. Only people in the south of Bavaria (south of Munich) had "Lederhosen." The flap (drop front style) may actually be a unique, or clever, Bavarian invention. It became so popular in the 18th century, that it was known in France as "à la bavaroise," or "in the Bavarian style."[1]
Lederhosen have remained regionally popular and are commonly associated with virility and brawn. Some men enjoy wearing them when hiking, working outdoors, on a stag night, or attending folk festivals and beer gardens; they are rarely seen elsewhere, and have accquired camp connotations in the rest of Central Europe. Nevertheless, they have remained a symbol of regional pride. Their role in Bavaria is thus comparable to that of the kilt/trews in Scotland or the cowboy hat in the United States.
German boys used to wear lederhosen to the age of about 16. These lederhosen were less decorative than the Austrian tracht (mainly with regards to embroidery), but retained typical attributes like the suspenders/braces and drop front style flap. Even today, some German and French boy scouts wear various forms of lederhosen, although in most cases they do not form part of their official uniform. Lederhosen were also worn by Austrian boys from the 1930s to the 1960s. Today they are worn in special cases, like a Biergarten or on a Zeltfest. Austrian girls wear the Dirndl as a part of the tracht.
The Turkish oil wrestlers wear a kind of lederhosen called a kisbet, which are also embroidered and similar to the Alpine lederhosen, but without suspenders.
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| Translations: Lederhosen |
Dansk (Danish)
n. pl. - lederhosen, skindbukser
Nederlands (Dutch)
korte leren broek (Beiers)
Français (French)
n. pl. - short tyrolien
Deutsch (German)
n. pl. - Lederhosen
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - γερμανικό και αυστριακό δερμάτινο παντελόνι
Italiano (Italian)
calzoni tirolesi
Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - calças (f pl) curtas de couro
Русский (Russian)
короткие кожаные штаны
Español (Spanish)
n. pl. - pantalones de cuero utilizados en Baviera
Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - lederhosen
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
皮短裤
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. pl. - 皮短褲
한국어 (Korean)
n. pl. - 멜빵이 달린 남자용의 짧은 바지
العربيه (Arabic)
(الجمع) بنطلون جلدي قصير في بافاريا
עברית (Hebrew)
n. pl. - מכנסי עור קצרים עם כתפיות לגברים הנהוגים בבווריה
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