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bloomers (n.)
1851, named for U.S. feminist reformer Amelia Jenks
Bloomer
(1818-1894), who promoted them. The surname is attested from c. 1200, said to mean literally "iron-worker," from Old English
bloma
(see
bloom
(n.2)).
