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capris
noun · first attested 1950s
The trousers are named for the island where their designer's family took holidays.
Close-fitting women's trousers ending between the knee and the ankle.
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- Indirect, via a person or title
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1950s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Capri
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capris
The German designer Sonja de Lennart introduced her Capri Collection in 1948 and named it after the island in the Bay of Naples. The trousers reached a wide audience through 1950s and 1960s film and television, on Audrey Hepburn and Mary Tyler Moore. English later built manpris on the same ending.
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