inexpressibles

== English == === Etymology === From inexpressible +‎ -s. Compare unmentionables (“underwear”). === Noun === inexpressibles pl (plural only) (colloquial, dated) Breeches, trousers. 1796, Edward Gibbon, letter, in Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 196: Have you never observed, through my inexpressibles, a large prominency, circa genitalia? It was a swelled testicle […] . 1833-36, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz, "The Out and Out Young Gentleman", in The Oxford Illustrated Dickens, p. 596: For some years past the favorite costume of the out-and-out young gentleman has been a rough pilot coat, with two gilt hooks and eyes to the velvet collar; buttons somewhat larger than crown-pieces; a black or fancy neckerchief, loosely tied; a wide-brimmed hat, with a low crown; tightish inexpressibles, and iron-shod boots.