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plus fours

plural noun

  1. long, baggy knickers for men, introduced before World War I and worn until the 1930s for sports activities, especially golf.


plus fours

plural noun

  1. men's baggy knickerbockers reaching below the knee, now only worn for hunting, golf, etc
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plus fours1

First recorded in 1915–20; so called because four inches are added to the length of ordinary knickers to give the desired looseness
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of plus fours1

C20: so called because the trousers are made with four inches of material to hang over at the knee
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It was yellow slickers with writing on the back, college pennants, and plus fours.

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"There has been some great style, even going way back to plus fours," Scott said.

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Payne Stewart, who competed in NFL-licensed plus fours and golf shirts, wisely refrained from wearing Giants or Jets gear at the U.S.

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Those plus fours from the 1930s had already run their course a decade later, and the oversized shirts Fred Couples sported in the early '90s now look like intricately-designed pillow cases.

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Sarazen, a go-his-own-way type who continued to wear plus fours when all the other guys had switched to pants, called his deuce a “dodo,†the flightless and extinct bird from the island of Mauritius.

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