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bell-bottoms
Domain:  Garments
Subdomain (1st level):  Pants
Table:  Table 7
Noun phrase
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Definition:  Pants cut with fullness on both outer and inner seams to give a “bell” flare at the hem. Style most generally worn by young people in late 1960s and early 1970s.
FDF, 1988
Context:  A white shirt with early ’70s silver lamé bell-bottoms for evening? why not.
Dubin, Berman, 2000
Attestation:  10
Contains:  pocket, waistband, fly
Co-hyponyms:  low-waisted pants, cigarette pants, straight-legged pants, Capri pants, palazzo pants, shorts (en), overalls
Hyperonyms:  pants
Variants:  bell-bottom pants
It:  pantaloni a campana
Degree of reliability:  10
O’Hara, 1998