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title: "Hose"
description: "Hose are close-fitting coverings for the legs and lower body worn by men in medieval and Renaissance Europe, later separated into breeches and stockings."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/hose
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
---

# Hose

*Hose are close-fitting coverings for the legs and lower body worn by men in medieval and Renaissance Europe, later separated into breeches and stockings.*

Medieval hose were separate cloth legs; by the fifteenth century they were joined into a single garment tied to the [doublet](https://teazle.art/glossary/doublet.md). In the sixteenth century the upper part became padded trunk hose and the lower part stockings. Today “hose” mostly means stockings or tights.


## Sources

1. [Hose (AAT 300378956)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300378956). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Hose (Q3059530)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3059530). Wikidata

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