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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOSE (a word See also:common to many See also:Teutonic See also:languages; cf. Dutch, hoes, See also:stocking, Ger. Hose, breeches, tights; the ultimate origin is unknown)  , the name of an See also:article of See also:dress, used as a covering for the See also:leg and See also:foot . The word has been used for various forms of a See also:long See also:stocking covering both the foot and leg (see See also:HOSIERY), and this is the usual See also:modern sense . But it also formerly meant a See also:kind of gaiter covering the leg from the See also:knee to the See also:ankle only, of the long tight covering for the whole of the See also:lower limbs, and later of the See also:short puffed or slashed breeches worn with the doublet—at this See also:period, from the See also:early See also:part of the 16th See also:century onwards, comes the distinction between the " See also:hose " or " See also:trunk hose " and the stocking (see See also:COSTUME) . The See also:term is applied to certain See also:objects resembling such a covering, as in its application to flexible See also:rubber or See also:canvas piping used for conveying See also:water (see HosEPn'E), and in See also:botany, to the " sheath " covering, e.g. the See also:ear of See also:corn . The term " hose-inhose " is thus used in botany for a See also:flower in which the corolla has become doubled, as though a second were inserted in the See also:throat of the first; it occurs sometimes in the See also:primrose .

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