lederhosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The Olympic Twelfth has come and gone, as have the 49 stalwart Lederhosed ’44ers who turned up to reune with the Classes of ’45 , ’47 , ’48 , ’49 next to Palmer Stadium.
ref: 1956 July 6, Herbert W. Hobler, “[Reunion Reports and Notes] 44”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume LVI, number 30, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, page 38, column 3:
text: The company had sold my front seat twice over, the other purchaser being a lederhose'''d young German.
ref: 1957, Wilfrid Blunt, A Persian Spring, London: James Barrie Books Limited, page 82:
text: One applicant, for example, had shepherded 25 lederhosed children in the Austrian mountains every day from seven to five.
ref: 1960 August 26, “Nursery School Names ‘Nanny’ For Early Class”, in The Journal-News, volume 71, number 94, Nyack, N.Y., page twenty-four:
text: The atmosphere was sausages and oom-pah-pah Friday evening, as aproned maids spun full short skirts and lederhose’d men hooted and schuplattlered^([sic]) in true Alpine tradition.
ref: 1972 July 15, “German-Canadian dancers perform”, in The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page 25, column 1:
text: The lilting music of a lederhosed accordionist drifts through the dining areas resulting in spontaneous singing and hand clapping.
ref: 1972 September 30, “Gaiety Growing At Grammer’s”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 132nd year, number 174, Cincinnati, Oh., Restaurant Tab section, page 7:
text: The poster shows a smiling Mrs. Young, three beer steins held out in one hand and a plate of German-style food in the other, while in the background lederhosed dancers cavort.
ref: 1973 July 7, “[Canadians] Grandma with gemutlichkeit”, in Canadian Panorama (Star Weekly), Toronto, Ont., page 8, column 4:
text: A bevy of English school kids in the company of a leder-hosed scoutmaster charged noisily in and out of this place for lunch, a hint that the creperie is probably your best choice financially if you are on the road in the French provinces with lots of mouths to feed.
ref: 1982 January 10, Carleton Jones, “Munching crepes on gastronomic tour of Brittany countryside”, in The Sunday Sun, volume 82, number 2, Baltimore, Md., page H 3, column 2:
text: He looked round, and saw that a coach-load of Japanese tourists had just been unloaded and were swarming around the Hotel Wald’s lederhosed reception team.
ref: 1990, Noah Webster [pseudonym; Bill Knox], The Spanish Maze Game, New York, N.Y.: Crime Club, Doubleday, published 1991, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Plus, like any other self-respecting media nation, Japan has the usual burnoused “Arabs,” hula-skirted “Hawaiians,” lederhosed “Germans,” and sombrero’d “Mexicans” parading across the screen.
ref: 1992, Sites, numbers 24–26, Lumen, page 11:
text: Pountney has plenty of fun with the bierkeller antics of the central tableau, with lines and lines of lederhosed hearties marching to and fro, but there is something a little uncomfortable, not to say Ridleyesque, about the anti-German parody here.
ref: 1992 February 2, Nicholas Kenyon, “Always a goose, never a swan”, in Observer, number 10451, London, page 61, column 5:
text: If such are his aspirations he might better quit the race, get himself an 18-wheeler, spiff it up like a Kitchener transit bus with wunderbar logos and cartoons, rig up the horn to go “oom-pa-pa,” and toot his way west down the 401 with a trailerload of Golden Triangle beer and sausage—Brick, Sleeman’s, Schneider’s, Piller’s—to promote these fine products of our industry, the best of their kind in the hemisphere, among lederhosed and dirndled refugees from Flint in Frankenmuth and autoworkers dealing blackjack in Windsor’s majestic castles of chance.
ref: 1994 November 11, Marinus de Groot, “Kitchener deserves more than tired Black Forest fantasies”, in The Record, Kitchener, Ont., page A15, columns 3–4:
text: If peaks were to be scaled then I was their scaler. Lone Mandible the lederhosed Austrian.
ref: 2006, Brooke Biaz, “Arrival”, in Small Maps of the World, West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, →ISBN, section “Traveling II: Place”, page 182:
text: Lederhosed / Tired of Oktoberfest yet? We didn’t think so. Pile on with more raucous singing, swaying and swilling at the DANK-Haus Oktoberfest party.
ref: 2007 September 28, Beth Geraci, “A stein frenzy”, in RedEye, Chicago, Ill., page 41:
text: And then, she was sipping a sweet savoring fluid and listening to lederhosed yodelers and a Tirol-dressed girl “jodlerin”.
ref: 2008, Mina A.A., “Vienna”, in Road Atlas To Love, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Bucks: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 146:
text: If it goes to penalties, everyone will expect the Bavaria’s finest to be home and lederhosed, yet they are no superhumans.
ref: 2012 May 19, Henry Winter, “Chelsea put their trust in Drogba”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page S2, column 5:
text: As the leader of the growing German Workers Party, Hitler traveled to Bayreuth in late September 1923 to attend a political rally. While in the city, he was invited by the Wagner family to visit and worship at Wahnfried, the maestro’s home and shrine. Chamberlain spoke extensively with the man over two days and was so impressed that he wrote the lederhosed politician an amazingly fulsome letter, which Hitler never forgot.
ref: 2013, Robert J. Richards, “Was Hitler a Darwinian?”, in Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory, Chicago, Ill.; London: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 217:
text: I trotted back to the flat, so pleased about the bet that I walked the whole way, still deep-breathing: […] past that cosy little dining-club The New Yorker at the bottom end of Park Lane but top end of Curzon Street, where, as I’ve told you, Olivia and I were then quite well-known, and the lederhosed owner Yoji (or however he spelt it) would wander all night between the tables, remorselessly and ungrammatically singing “Thanks Heaven, for little girls”, while grinning lecherously at every man’s companion to indicate that it wasn’t the little ones he was after.
ref: 2014, Tim Topps, Too Long in the Business, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics.: Matador, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Young and old descend on Schladming Dirndl-ed and Lederhosed in early April for this ragey folk music festival; […]
ref: 2022, Catherine Le Nevez, Austria, 10th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of lederhosened.