Trousers

Trousers (pants in North America) are an item of clothing worn from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth extending across both legs as in robes, skirts, and dresses).

In the UK the word "pants" generally means underwear and not trousers.Shorts are similar to trousers, but with legs that come down only to around the area of the knee, higher or lower depending on the style of the garment. To distinguish them from shorts, trousers may be called "long trousers" in certain contexts such as school uniform, where tailored shorts may be called "short trousers", especially in the UK.

In most of the Western world, trousers have been worn since ancient times and throughout the Medieval period, becoming the most common form of lower-body clothing for adult males in the modern world, although shorts are also widely worn, and kilts and other garments may be worn in various regions and cultures. Breeches were worn instead of trousers in early modern Europe by some men in higher classes of society. Since the mid-20th century, trousers have increasingly been worn by women as well. Jeans, made of denim, are a form of trousers for casual wear, now widely worn all over the world by both sexes. Shorts are often preferred in hot weather or for some sports and also often by children and teenagers. Trousers are worn on the hips or waist and may be held up by their own fastenings, a belt or suspenders (braces). Leggings are form-fitting trousers, of a clingy material, often knitted cotton and spandex (elastane).

Charis (disambiguation)

Charis may refer to:

  • Charis, one of several Charites, otherwise known as The Three Graces of Greek mythology
  • Charis (name)
  • Charis, Iran, a village
  • Charis Johnson (b. 1973), investment executive
  • Charis SIL, a typeface
  • Eso-Charis, an Arkansas band
  • Charis (butterfly), a genus of metalmark butterflies in the tribe Riodinini
  • Charis (Safehold), a fictional nation in the Safehold series of books by David Weber
  • Charis SIL

    Charis SIL is a transitional typeface developed by SIL International based on Bitstream Charter, one of the first fonts designed for laser printers. The font offers four family members: roman, bold, italic, and bold italic.

    Its design goal is to "provide a single Unicode-based font family that would contain a comprehensive inventory of glyphs needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system, whether used for phonetic or orthographic needs."

    Charis SIL supports Graphite, OpenType, and AAT technologies for advanced rendering features. Along with Doulos SIL, it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), and can be downloaded free of charge.

    In June, 2013, version 4.114 of Charis SIL was released with over 4600 glyphs. Version 5.000 of the font was released on 28 October 2014.

    Phonetician John C. Wells recommends Charis SIL for displaying IPA symbols.

    Sources

    References

  • "Charis SIL (Home Page)".
  • See the OFL page on sil.org
  • Download page on sil.org
  • "Current Versions". SIL International. 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-19.
  • Podcasts:

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    Charis

    by: Elend

    Beauty dies of beauty
    Love of love
    In the fever of our waiting
    We were decieved, without deceivers
    Betrayed, without betrayers
    A mirror waits for your face




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