jodhpurs

A city and administrative district in Rajasthan, India 1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɒdpəz/, /ˈd͡ʒəʊdpəz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑdpɚz/

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• Hyphenation: jodh‧purs

jodhpurs

jodhpurs pl

1. Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
   • 2006, Peter Godwin, When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa:

     All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.

• Jodhpur
• jods, jodhs