jodhpurs

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.

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

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

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• Hyphenation: jodh‧purs

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:

     "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.

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