palazzo pants

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palazzo pants pl (plural only)

  1. (US and non-British) Very wide flared trousers for women.
    • 1993 November, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair‎[1]:
      It's a sunny Saturday and Shannen is giving a tour of her new house. She is wearing loose navy palazzo pants, a sleeveless white linen shirt that keeps coming unbuttoned, and her omnipresent motorcycle boots.
    • 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 191:
      Here you are […] in your favourite viscose shirt and palazzo pants.

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