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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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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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