bell-bottomed
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˈbɛlˌbɑtəm/
- Archaic
:
acampanados
- She found a vintage jacket that matched perfectly with her bell-bottomed pants.
- bell-bottomed trousers
Examples
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In the 1970s, many young people embraced bell-bottomed trousers as a fashion statement.
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The base of the bell-bottomed Sompo Japan Head Office Building in Nishi Shinjuku, by day a sober workplace for insurance executives and Tokyo's 23rd tallest building, is the most popular spot.
Blog text (10) -
Nobody, including myself, is entirely immune, and in this regard I can offer up a box hidden away in my attic that contains bell-bottomed trousers, tie-dyed shirts, and several sets of love beads as evidence.
Academic text (1999) -
A bell-bottomed, platform-shoed John Travolta wannabe, accompanied by the innocent, pre-slut Olivia Newton-John from Grease.
Fiction book (1999) -
The bell-bottomed trousers and transistor radios in this intimately scaled portrait of three teenagers, made in Bamako, Mali, in 1968, help ground the work in time and place.
Academic text (2003) -
He wore a pair of trendy bell-bottomed jeans that flared out at the ankles.
Synonyms
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3.9
Trousers with legs that become wider below the knee
Trousers that become wider from the knee down
Antonyms
How Flared
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bell-bottomed comes from the lower part of the trousers that spreads out like a bell around the bottom, so the legs 'flare out' from the knee down. A helpful way to remember it is to picture 1970s jeans or old sailors' trousers with wide lower legs.