Hose
1. Socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear
as hosiery). Normally I refer to my hose as sox.
2. Man's garment of the 16th and 17th centuries; worn with a doublet. English
dandies wore hose as the latest fashion in much earlier times.
3. A flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas. She got out the hose and
watered the flowers.
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