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trousers

[trou-zerz]

noun (used with a plural verb)

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.

pantalets.

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

Related forms

trou·ser·less, adjective

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But cautious dressers tend to confine such experiments to the wearing of a solid color, with trousers in a related hue.

If you really want to stay with trousers, try black velvet or silk trousers matched with a silk top/jacket of your choice.

The practice of wearing a jacket and trousers of matching material made by the same firm was still some years away.

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But cautious dressers tend to confine such experiments to the wearing of a solid color, with trousers in a related hue.

If you really want to stay with trousers, try black velvet or silk trousers matched with a silk top/jacket of your choice.

The practice of wearing a jacket and trousers of matching material made by the same firm was still some years away.

She wore a pair of men's trousers that she herself had sewed.

Cordarounds are biking trousers which solve two problems at once, only to introduce a third.

The length of baseball trousers may not be the social and economic barometer that women.

They compared differences in uniforms: she asked them if they all had to wear suspenders with their fatigue trousers.

Less traditional are the bare expanse of taut stomach, the skin-tight hipster trousers and the six-inch stilettos.

Army-issue camouflage trousers under a ragged gray coat.

We remove our shoes, roll up our trousers and nervously wade knee-deep in the toxic stream.

We didn't study some long dead miner's trousers and then carefully distress the garment to match.

Trousers are poised once again for a major fashion statement.

He is then invited to take off his trousers and show his manhood to the world.

Vasily, dressed in gray trousers and a plaid lumberjack-style.

Instead, they wear a variety of uniforms that include trousers and overalls.

If a state senator's campaign to have young people pull up their trousers does not work, here is an alternative.

Always dressed in trousers and flats, she felt disdain for timid women.

With his parents and two sisters, he produced the fabric that lines the waist of cheap trousers.

All wear a crust of filth over their shawls and trousers.

Dark blue suit, nice break in the trousers right above.

The boom has caught some firms with their elegant trousers down.

Leather trousers and limitless conquests aside, let's face it-dude's a spaz.

Spending too long on a bike in regular trousers can wear out the seat of the pants.

Americans call trousers pants, so it doesn't come up.

Consider buying your crisply pressed trousers and blouses from thrift or consignment stores.

Trousers through which bits of flesh dirtily leered led up to a buttonless vest.

Women eschew trousers but none wears a face-veil and many do not cover their hair.

Almost-ankle-length mink coats worn with wool trousers or flung open to show a knee-baring satin skirt.

The industry's ageing giants have been caught with their elegant trousers down.

The third boy decided not to go wading in the moat and remained outside the enclosure, although he had taken off his trousers.

Full disclosure: your correspondent is a huge computer nerd, and has been ever since he was in short trousers.

The denim utility shirts, thermal knits and slim trousers only highlighted the emphasis on the many styles of coats.

He perches his ample behind atop his throne, and his red trousers are rent asunder with a sharp rip.

The familiarity and comfortable constraint of a well-cut jacket and trousers make you feel safe and even a bit powerful.

White trousers were pleasantly conspicuous, and mousselines, calicoes and organdies flourished in extenso.

For one thing, it can veer perilously close to the ultimate wardrobe crisis for a man: a sudden drop of trousers to the ankles.

There was quirky cute snowflake embroidery here and there on cropped trousers.

From smocked sundresses to slouchy trousers and her fresh versions of the new whites.

Among the brand's selling points were trousers finished at the bottom so the buyer did not need a tailor to alter them to fit.

So did high-button, high-lapel vests and slim tweed trousers.

And so did guys who tucked said trousers into high, old-fashioned hunting boots.

She also had smart-looking wool trousers and a little cap-sleeve sack dress that other designers might worry was too plain.

The men tend to wear polo neck or open neck shirts with a sports jacket or blazer and chinos or smart casual trousers.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

of or pertaining to trousers or a trouser: trouser cuffs; a trouser seam.

noun

a leg of a pair of trousers.

Origin:
1600–10; back formation from trousers

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Collins

World English Dictionary

trousers (ˈtraʊzəz)

—*pl n*
1.	a garment shaped to cover the body from the waist to the ankles or knees with separate tube-shaped sections for both legs
2.	informal (Brit) wear the trousers US equivalent: wear the pants to have control, esp in a marriage

[C17: from earlier trouse, a variant of trews, influenced by drawers]

'trousered

—*adj*

'trouserless

—*adj*

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Etymonline

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.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

trousers

an outer garment covering the lower half of the body from the waist to the ankles and divided into sections to cover each leg separately. In attempting to define trousers, historians often explain that if any portion of a garment passed between the legs, it was an ancestor of the trousers. Thus defined, trousers can be traced to ancient times as worn, for example, by the Scythians, Persians, Japanese, and Hindus

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"Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one might call the affirmative use of a term is basic—that, to understand 'x,' we need to know what it is to be x, or to be an x, and that knowing this apprises us of what it is not to be x, not to be an x. But with 'real' (as we briefly noted earlier) it is the negative use that wears the trousers."

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