How to Use lederhosen in a Sentence

lederhosen

plural noun
  • How about all those corny low-cut dirndls and lederhosen shorts?
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Grab your lederhosen and your beer steins.
    — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Dress in your lederhosen or dirndl.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Dress in your lederhosen or dirndl.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Don’t have a dirndl or lederhosen?
    — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The dirndl and lederhosen crowd is already way ahead of her.
    — Martin Fritz Huber, Outside, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some fans wore cowboy hats with lederhosen.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Folks show up in full lederhosen, while polka and oompa tunes waft out of the town’s pubs and wineries.
    — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Wear your German lederhosen or dirndls.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Cute villages, dirndls and lederhosen, fairy-tale castles.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
  • Guests trade cowboy boots for lederhosen, line up for bratwursts and cheer as dachshunds in jerseys race to the finish line.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Inside, stencils of flowers, women in dirndls, and men in lederhosen adorn the walls.
    — Sue Hertz, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Meanwhile, the men in the family sported lederhosen with vests and button-up shirts.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Break our your lederhosen, and check out our list of Oktoberfests and other fall parties.
    — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Before then, Kane wants to deliver more success to a city that has become home — and don those lederhosen at least one more time.
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Some fans wore lederhosen and others painted their faces and even their bodies with the colors of the Austrian flag.
    — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • There's a festive parade, a medallion hunt, lederhosen games, carnival rides, and — of course — plenty of beer.
    — Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The property can also arrange a private fitting for dirndl or lederhosen.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The property can also arrange a private fitting for dirndl or lederhosen.
    — Siobhan Reid, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Senior Katy Nelson is co-president and in charge of the attire, the dirndl for women and lederhosen for men.
    — Julie Cornell, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Heading to downtown Cincinnati for a weekend filled with lederhosen, liter-sized beer steins, giant cream puffs, bratwurst and cringe-worthy chicken dances?
    — Kaycee Sloan, Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Right Clothes Tourists and locals alike don lederhosen and dirndls at Oktoberfest.
    — Don Tse, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The popular beer-stein holding contests — with divisions for both men and women — will be back, and there’ll also be a contest to see who wears the best dirndl and lederhosen.
    — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Live music, brat-eating contest, lederhosen fashion show are among activities.
    — Andre Meunier, oregonlive, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Mader's is filled with Old-World charm from the outside to the dining room, an ornate space with Bavarian decor and a waitstaff that dons dirndls and lederhosen.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The celebration includes stein engravings, sausage eating contests, stein hoisting contests, a goldrush cash punch wall, and a lederhosen and dirndle contest.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In addition to the two outfit request on the day, guests were also asked to deck themselves out in traditional Austrian attire for the dirndl and lederhosen rehearsal dinner the night before.
    — Marcia Moody, Town & Country, 19 May 2017
  • Some changes planned for this year’s event include a third beer garden that will feature a more German feel with authentic food, traditional oompah music and servers donning lederhosen and other German garb.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2019
  • Look for exhibits on the history of Oktoberfest and Germans in New Orleans as well as a gift shop selling souvenirs, such as beer steins, flower headbands, dirndls, lederhosen and hats.
    — Ann Maloney, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Oktoberfest's first night was beautiful and warm, and the broad aisles between the booths on 2nd and 3rd quickly got crowded with Cincinnatians in chicken hats and lederhosen, eating a lot of meat and carbohydrates washed down with beer.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 15 Sep. 2017

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