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slops
Large and loose trowsers, from which loose clothing is called slops. The word, says Todd, was former...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
A name given to ready-made clothes, and other furnishings, for seamen, by Maydman, in 1691. In Chaucer's time, sloppe meant a sort of breeches. In a MS. account of the wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth, is an order to John Fortescue for the delivery of some Naples fustian for "Sloppe for Jack Greene, our Foole."
Large and loose trowsers, from which loose clothing is called slops. The word, says Todd, was former...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.