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from The Century Dictionary.

  • The covering for the legs worn by men in the Levant, and to a certain extent by all Mohammedan peoples.

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  • The Emirs and Grandees went in to her and did her homage, nothing doubting but that she was a young man, and all who looked on her bepissed their bag-trousers, for the excess of her beauty and loveliness.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He was presently placed on all fours and firmly held by the extremities; his bag-trousers were let down and a dozen peppercorns were inserted ano suo: the target was

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth he, “Leave me my bag-trousers, so Allah repay thee;” and he swore by Allah that he would contend with none, so long as Tawaddud abode in the realm of Baghdad.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • When Badr al-Din saw the glorious sight his desires were roused, and he arose and doffed her clothes, and wrapping up in his bag-trousers 425 the purse of gold which he had taken from the Jew and which contained the thousand dinars, he laid it under the edge of the bedding.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Though the text especially tells us the hero removed his bag-trousers (not only “son habit”) and placed them under the pillow, a crucial fact in the history, our Professor sends him to bed fully dressed, apparently for the purpose of informing his readers in a foot-note that Easterns

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But I knew not whither I should wend, for I had upon me naught save my bag-trousers. 340 However, I rose and walked on a little, till I suddenly espied the Chief of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he looked at Kaylajan and Kurajan and skited in his bag-trousers.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • I wiped my hand upon my bag-trousers, unknowing what had befouled it, and put it out a second time, when it fell upon a corpse whose head came up in my hand.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then he went in sighing, and pondered what had come to pass with him and was perplexed about his case, and his affair became yet more obscure to him when he saw his turband and bag-trousers and when, feeling the pocket, he found the purse containing the thousand gold pieces.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The corporal under whose immediate orders he was placed, a prim and lady-like youngster, took an aversion to John, partly on account of the bag-trousers, and partly because of the stuffings of his helmet, a fraction of which not unfrequently escaped its confinement, and hung down, in stiff wooden ringlets, over his pale cheeks.

    The Life of John Clare Martin, Frederick, 1830-1883 1865

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