bellbottom
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Describing trousers or pants that have legs which become significantly wider from the knee down to the hem, creating a flared silhouette.
Usage
- The term "bellbottom" is used as an adjective to modify nouns like "trousers," "pants," or "jeans." It describes a specific style of clothing.
- Example: She wore a pair of bellbottom jeans to the vintage-themed party.
Advanced Usage
- The style is most famously associated with 1960s and 1970s fashion, particularly with naval uniforms and counterculture movements.
- Example: The bellbottom silhouette made a brief comeback in modern fashion collections.
Variants and Related Words
- Bell-bottoms (noun, plural): The trousers themselves are commonly referred to as "bell-bottoms."
- Example: He found his old bell-bottoms from the seventies in the attic.
- Bell-bottomed (adjective): An alternative adjectival form with the same meaning.
- Example: The uniform included bell-bottomed trousers.
Synonyms
- Flared (adjective): Having a shape that widens toward the bottom. This is a more general term.
- Wide-leg (adjective): Describing trousers with a wide cut, though not necessarily flaring specifically from the knee.
Antonyms
- Straight-leg (adjective): Describing trousers with legs of a consistent width from thigh to hem.
- Tapered (adjective): Describing trousers that become narrower toward the hem.
Adjective
- (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom
- bell-bottomed trousers