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Bloomers was a British BBC situation comedy television show written by James Saunders, starring Richard Beckinsale and Anna Calder-Marshall, about an out-of-work actor working in a florists shop. Bloomers ran during 1979.
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Bloomers were originally full-length Turkish pantaloons, gathered in above the ankles and at the waist, worn under a skirt, forming part of the Bloomer Costume developed by Amelia Bloomer. Bloomers developed over the years becoming trousers or culottes with a very full, voluminous legs, gathered around the waist and into a band at the ends of the legs, and the term is now applied to women's loose-fitting, baggy undergarments.
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Turkish trousers are a form of women's trousers developed from the skirt and popularised by the sport of cycling. Turkish trousers are full bloomers, gathered or pleated around the waist and gathered into a band below the knee, giving the impression of a skirt.
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Bloomers is a cultivated variety of potato.
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Montezumas is London Cockney rhyming slang for bloomers.
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Wicked rumnours is London Cockney rhyming slang for bloomers.
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