capri pants

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Etymology

Part of the Capri Collection by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart (1920–), named after her family's preferred holiday destination, the Italian island of Capri.

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capri pants pl (plural only)

  1. Casual pants or trousers, usually for women, with the bottom hem reaching to below the knee but above the ankle; usually lightweight and summery.
    • 2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
      I see women wearing capri pants nearly every day; they're not as bad as cargo capris, but they aren't the capri pants of Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, either. Those 1960s capri pants were fitted.

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