trunk brace

The guard or stay which supports a lid or checks its backward motion. *trunk-breeches, s. The same as TRUNK-HOSE IMG:content-1500.png:[blocks in formation] *trunk-hose, s. pl . A kind of short, wide, breeches, gathered in above the knees, or immediately under them, and dist in guished according to their peculiar cut, as French (of which there were two kinds, one wide, the other closely fitting), Gallic (reaching to the knee), and Venetian (coming below the knee). They were worn in England during the reigns of Henry VIII., Elizabeth, and James I. trunk-light, s. A skylight, sometimes at the upper end of an aperture whose curb or lin