[trou-zerz] 
) | 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. |
[trou-zer] | 1. | of or pertaining to trousers or a trouser: trouser cuffs; a trouser seam. |
| 2. | a leg of a pair of trousers. |
[pan-tl-ets] ) | 1. | Sometimes, pantalet. long drawers extending below the skirt, with a frill or other finish at the bottom of the leg, commonly worn by women and girls in the 19th century. |
| 2. | a pair of separate frilled or trimmed pieces for attaching to the legs of women's drawers. |
| 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.] |
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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