underpinnings n.
the legs.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Mike Fink 9/2: Nothing like long under-pinins fur travel. | |
| N.Y. Dramatic News 5 Oct. 6/1: Do cigarette girls at work wear their dresses decollete at the bottom and show their underpinnings? [OED]. | |
| While Rome Burns 48: There he was at last with his underpinnings shot from under him. | |
| , | | DAS 560/2: [...] Since ca.1850. |