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▪ I. trouse, n.1 Now dial.|traʊs|
Forms: 1 trus, 3–4 trous, 6–7 trousse, trowse, 5– trouse.
[OE. trus, perh. a. OIcel. tros rubbish, fallen leaves and twigs, ON. and Norw. tros, Sw. trås, perh. in ablaut relation with tras twig, sprout: see trash n.1; but the ON. word is applied only to twigs, etc. used for burning.]
Brushwood, cuttings from hedges or copses; = trash n.1 1.
978Charter Bp. Oswald in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 169 Ðæt mylenstall and vi. æcras ðærto, and vi. foðra truses ælce ᵹeare on Bloccanlea. 1293Anc. Deed A. 9277 (P.R.O.), Dederunt..dicto Hamundo.., trous de alnetis et spinis ad claudendum schidstauid yord. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxxix. 110 For hope of ys thornes to dutten is doren, He mot myd is twy-byl other trous make. 1458Anc. Deed A. 7587 (P.R.O.), To take als moche wode & trouse vpone þe seid londe growyng as is sufficiaunt for closure of alle þe seid londes. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §126 Lay thy small trouse or thornes, that thou hedgeste withal, ouer thy quicke⁓settes. 1573Nottingham Rec. IV. 149 Fellyng of trouse..in the nere Coppy. 1600Holland Livy vi. x. 223 They provided themselves out of the fields of a number of faggots, of brushwood, and such like trousse, and so..filled up the ditches close to the wals. 1610Nottingham Rec. IV. 301 To fetch any trowse or tinsell out of the same woodes. 1691Blount's Law Dict. (ed. 2), Tinet,..Trouse, Brushwood and Thorns to make and repair Hedges. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., ‘That rough trouse ool be rar' stuff fur breastin' the 'edge to keep the ship [i.e. sheep] out.’
Hence † trouse v. Obs., to cut brushwood (cf. trash v.3); † ˈtrousing vbl. n. (in quot. attrib.).
1512Nottingham Rec. IV. 454 A trowsyng ax. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss. s.v., Trousing a hedge or faggot; trimming off the superfluous branches. Warw.
▪ II. trouse, n.2 Now Hist. and arch.|truːz, traʊz|
[App. taken in 16th c. from Irish (and Sc. Gaelic) triubhas, recorded c 1500 (see quot.), orig. pronounced trīvăs or trīwăs, in mod.Irish pronunc. trïus (see trews). (The quot. of 1306, from its early date and late form, is doubtful, and may not belong to this word.) The 16th and 17th c. quots. here and under trews refer to it as worn by the Celts. It has been held to be derived from OF. trousse truss, etc. q.v., but a careful examination of OF. literature by M. Antoine Thomas shows no trace of trousse in the sense assumed, which appears, later than in English, in Miège's Dict. 1679. The thing is said by Littré to have been worn (? in 17th c.) by young pages and by certain novices, and to survive in certain expressions, as il avait quitté les trousses, and être aux trousses de l'ennemi.
As to the ulterior history, Prof. Bergin of Dublin thinks well of the suggestion in Holder Alt-celt. Sprachsch. II. 1974, that the Celtic triubhas represents OF. trebus ‘sorte de chaussure ou de chausse’ (13th c., Godef.), from late L. tubrācōs ‘tubrucos vocatos quod tibias braccasque tegant’ (Isidore Orig. xix. xxii. 30). ‘Tubraci quod a braccis ad tibias usque perveniant’, which appears later as tribraci.
Miège F. Dict. (1679) has ‘Trousses, sorte de chausses, trunk-breeches’.]
1. Originally, A close-fitting article of attire for the buttocks and thighs (divided below so as to form a separate covering for each thigh), to the lower extremities of which stockings (when worn) were attached; spec. = trews. In later use drawers, or knee-breeches.
(α) sing. 6 trowes, trwse, 7 trous, trouze, 7–8 trowze, 8 trowse, 6– trouse.
[1306Pleas of Crown (Irel.) 34–5 Edw. I, m. 10 d, Vnum crannoc..vnus arcus cum sagittis..vna spartha (unum par) [so app.; MS. faint] s[o]tularium cum trues..precii vnius denarii et oboli. c1500in W. Stokes Irish Glosses, Tract on L. Declen. (1860) 12 Hee brace gl. tribus. ]
1578in Sharp Cov. Myst. 37 Pd. for a trwse for Judas ijs. viijd. 1581Trowes [see trews]. 1630Conceits, Clinches, etc. (1860) 8 A jellous wife was like an Irish trouze, alwayes close to a mans tayle. 1633Spenser's State Irel. 48 The leather quilted Iacke..for any occasion of suddaine service,..to cover his trouse [Add. MS. thinn breeche] on horsebacke. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. i. xviii. 85 The Trowze being made, I saw it laced on... The lower part of the Trowze was tacked to a Cotton Stocking he put on that Leg. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. xxii. (1818) II. 84 Few besides gentlemen wear the trowze, that is, the breeches and stockings all of one piece. 1746Trowse [see trews]. 1775F. Gregor tr. Fortescue De Laudibus xxxv. 125 Nor do they [French common people] wear any Trowse, but from the Knees upwards; their Legs being exposed and naked. 1813J. Grant Orig. Gael (1814) 213 Strabo describes the clothing of the Gauls as consisting of..a sort of breeches, which covered the inferior members of the body, similar to the triumhas or trouse of the Gael. 1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 86 The belted blouse Of velvet black, and closely-fitting trouse.
(β) pl. 6–7 trouzes, 7 trousses, trooses, troosses, troozes, truzes, trusses, 7–8 trowzes, 7–9 trowses, 8 truses, 6– trouses.
1581Derrick Image Irel. ii. E iij b, His skirtes be verie shorte, with pleates set thicke about, And Irishe trouzes more to put, their straunge protractours out. 1586D. Rowland Lazarillo ii. (1672) T iv, A Gentleman-Usher with handsom Trouses, a neat Doublet, a good Cloak, and a comely bonnet. 1601Holland Pliny vii. xliii. I. 177 In his youth he was a poore souldier, and served as a footman in his single trousses and grieves. 1612R. Daborne Chr. turned Turke 1409 S'hart, a French slop, these are none of the Iewes trouses. 1622Relat. Eng. Plantation in Arber Story Pilgrim Fathers (1897) 453 They had most of them long hosen up to their groins, close made; and above their groins to their waist, another leather. They were altogether like the Irish trouses. 1625B. Jonson Staple of N. i. i, Hee walks in his Gowne, wastcoate, and trouses, Expecting his Taylor. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 Their [Persians'] breeches are like Irish troozes, hose and stockings sowed together. 1673Lond. Gaz. No. 807/4 A Cook,..in a sad coloured Stuff Coat and Trowses. 1741in Scott. Hist. Rev. Apr. (1905) 303 The prisoner was going to the field in truses, Contrary to orders. 1747Carte Hist. Eng. I. 20 The inhabitants of those provinces, who wore Braccæ, trowses striped and of various colours serving for both hose and breeches. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 234 The close hose, fitting exactly to the limbs, in fact, the Norman chausses, were..revived [Henry VIII] under the..name of trouses.
†2. (pl.) = trousers 2. Obs.
1679V. Alsop Melius Inquir. i. i. 60 The Papists..maliciously reproach the Scripture..when they call it..a Leaden Dagger, a pair of Seamans Trowzes, a movable Dyal. 1705Elstob in Hearne's Collect. 30 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 107 His trowzes wch with loops emboss'd he tyes. 1820Acc. Coronation Geo. IV, The King's Trowses.
3. Comb., as trouse-like a. or adv.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. Pref., Their colour'd thighs Trous-like being died black.
Hence † troused a. Obs. rare—1, wearing the trouse (cf. kilted, plaided).
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xviii. 638 The trowzed Irish led by their uniust Tyrone. |