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trou⋅ser

[trou-zer]
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to trousers or a trouser: trouser cuffs; a trouser seam.
–noun
2. a leg of a pair of trousers.

Origin:
1600–10; back formation from trousers

trou⋅sers

[trou-zerz]
–noun (used with a plural verb)
1. Sometimes, trouser. Also called pants. a usually loose-fitting outer garment for the lower part of the body, having individual leg portions that reach typically to the ankle but sometimes to any of various other points from the upper leg down. Compare Bermuda shorts, breeches, knickers (def. 1), short (def. 29a), slacks.
2. pantalets.

Origin:
1585–95; trouse (var. of trews ) + (draw)ers


trou⋅ser⋅less, adjective
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trou·ser   (trou'zər)   
n.  An outer garment for covering the body from the waist to the ankles, divided into sections to fit each leg separately. Often used in the plural.
adj.  Of, designed for, or found on trousers: trouser legs; trouser cuffs.

[Back-formation from trousers, alteration of obsolete trouse, from Scottish Gaelic triubhas.]
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Word Origin & History

trousers 
1612, earlier trouzes (1581), extended from trouse (1578), with plural ending typical of things in pairs, from Gaelic or Middle Irish triubhas "close-fitting shorts," of uncertain origin. The unexplained intrusive second -r- is perhaps by influence of drawers.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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