Sentence:  It has crept up the leg and become hose, and it is made no longer of leather but of cloth. Gradually these <WSD>hosen</WSD> became longer and longer, until they joined at the top into one garment, which betrayed its dual origin by keeping the plural [...] 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (hose) (the old-fashioned garment; stockings)