trousers
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.
Origin of trousers
1Other words from trousers
- trou·ser·less, adjective
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How to use trousers in a sentence
But neither he nor the white-shirted, but trouserless, deacons would listen to him.
Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories | Louis BeckeNo creature on earth more excels in charming merriness and bold natural freshness, than your little freeborn, trouserless Briton.
Saunterings in and about London | Max SchlesingerHe wore nothing but a rough flax mat round his waist—trouserless, bootless, hatless.
The adventures of Kimble Bent | James Cowan
British Dictionary definitions for trousers
/ (ˈtraʊzəz) /
a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
wear the trousers British informal to have control, esp in a marriage: US equivalent: wear the pants
Origin of trousers
1Derived forms of trousers
- trousered, adjective
- trouserless, adjective
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