continuations

English

Noun

continuations

  1. plural of continuation

Noun

continuations pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Trousers or breeches.
    • 1881, The Theatre, page 118:
      I think what sort of dress she might wear, and a vision of a fair form, clad in […] a pair of continuations of white flannel (such as men wear, only looser) floats through my brain.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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