Definition of "inexpressibles" [in•ex•press•i•bles]

• Breeches; trousers (noun)

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• ""inexpressibles" -- (a word which, the reader may be interested to learn, is as old as 1793)."
• "What Mr. Keyes seems to miss is that " inexpressibles " for " breeches " — going back to a bawdy 1790 poem by John Wolcot — was a comic formulation lampooning phony propriety."
• "Which led to the use of euphemisms such as " inexpressibles " for leggy items of clothing."