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Definition of Bell-bottom
1. Adjective. (of trousers) having legs that flare at the bottom. "Bell-bottomed trousers"
Definition of Bell-bottom
1. Adjective. A style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bell-bottom
Literary usage of Bell-bottom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blast-furnace Construction in America by Joseph Esrey Johnson (1917)
"The further downward movement of the slide lets the bell bottom of the bucket
pass down inside the gas seal, carrying the counterweighted gas-seal bell with ..."
2. Navy Song Book edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"Now she's gonna join-the Waves, maybe go to sea, Try to find her sailor boy
wherever he may be: Bell Bottom Trousers, coat of Navy blue, She loves her ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... T. Cable for allowing conical K, Main bell; bottom of bucket to the furnace;
S, Bbst pipe; O, Tuyere ; drop. boles or " tuyeres " near the bottom or ..."
4. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1898)
"At the Lebanon furnaces, a charging skip 7 feet 2 inches in diameter, 7 feet 1
inch deep, with a drop bell bottom and holding 8000 Ibs., is hauled up an ..."
5. Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages: With a Great Variety of by Saint-Hilaire Blanc (1848)
"Лау thing which has the sbap of a bell. Bottom in theform < a bell. Iron hoop.Glass
vesse Mantel. Diving bell. Alarm-bel1 Campanario, sm. Belfry. ..."
6. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"6 in. hearth, and 18 ft. bosh, with 13 ft. stock line, filled by a skip with bell
bottom emptying over the hopper. The bell lever projecting over one side ..."
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