inexpressibles

This is owing to the natural advantages of naked feet and no inexpressibles.

Their inexpressibles had ventured into pale yellow and dove gray.

On the other side stood a clotheshorse, with a jacket and inexpressibles hanging neatly over the rods.

She liked the fact that Miss Fairfield said "breeches" and did not take refuge in calling them inexpressibles.

Men wore beletina (white cloth) inexpressibles and white wool socks.

Phinn was frantic, and upon lowering his inexpressibles we found the centipede about four inches long which had bitten him.

Inexpressibles] presumably long trousers.

He was only twenty-five years old, he said, and had grown recently, for it had been found necessary to make an addition to the legs of his inexpressibles.

"For God's sake, Mrs. Moodie, lend me a pair of inexpressibles.

Most will agree that euphemism is an acceptable means of avoiding the unmentionables, unutterables, inexplicables, ineffables, inexpressibles, and whatever else they have been called.

In polite circles, piano legs were decorously covered with frilly stockings; undergarments were called "inexpressibles," shirts "linen," arms and legs "branches."

Having, as I thought, sufficiently collected my ideas, I now, with great caution and deliberation, put my hands behind my back, and unfastened the large iron buckle which belonged to the waistband of my inexpressibles.

Or he may be the young lady's brother in the white gloves and inexpressibles, whose duty in the family appears to be to listen to the female members of it whenever they sing, and to shake hands with everybody between all the verses.

Both gentlemen had very open waistcoats and very rolling collars, and very small boots, and very big rings, and very little watches, and very large guard-chains, and symmetrical inexpressibles, and scented pocket-handkerchiefs. '

The only change ever known in his outward man, was from a complete suit of coffee-colour cut very square, and ornamented with glaring buttons, to the same suit of coffee-colour minus the inexpressibles, which were then of a pale nankeen.

Hearing the double fire, down went the Rangers into the skippers' cabins; groped for the skippers' inexpressibles, which it was the custom of those gentlemen to shake off, watch, money, braces, boots, and all together, on the floor; and therewith made off as silently as might be.

A light blush tinged her cheeks; she looked away--but not before she registered the subdued elegance of his garments--the tightly fitting grey coat, superbly cut, style in every line, worn over clinging ivory inexpressibles, which clearly revealed the long muscles of his thighs.

I dislike reverting to myself, but will just remark that in the article you read there is a mistake of 10 years as to the date of my first exhibited picture, as in 1809 I had not very long emerged from long clothes-not long enough at least to approximate the hope of pockets and inexpressibles.

The New York Sansculottery Writing styles have changed greatly from Victorian days when, as Phyllis Cunnington observes in Costumes of the Nineteenth Century, to talk of trousers was considered vulgar, and some extraordinary names were given to them, such as unmentionables, inexpressibles, unwhisperables, nether integuments, and others.