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trousers, n. pl.|ˈtraʊzəz|
Forms: 7–8 trossers, trowzers, 7– trowsers, trousers, 8 trouzers. See also strosser.
[An extended form of trouse n.2, cf. other words indicating a pair, as tweezers; perh. directly after drawers.]
†1. = trouse n.2 1, trews. Obs.
[1599: see strosser.] 1613Fletcher Coxcomb ii. iii, I'le haue you flead and trossers made of thy skin to tumble in. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xviii. (1821) 191 Cloathed in a simple mantle, and torne trowsers. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. i. xviii. 85 By laced Stockings and Trowzers the Swellings in his Legs and Thighs went off. 1752C. Stewart in Scots Mag. (1753) 293/1 Stewart had on blue and white trowsers. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xi. I. 315 The emperor Tetricus..as well as his son, whom he had created Augustus, was dressed in Gallic trowsers, a saffron tunic, and a robe of purple. 1778Ld. Carlisle Let. 21 June in 15th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. vi. 345 The gnats in this part of the river [Delaware] are as large as sparrows; I have armed myself against them by wearing trousers, which is the constant dress of this country. 1789M. Madan Persius (1795) 80 note, The bracca was a peculiar dress of the Medes, which like trowzers, reached from the loins to the ankles. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 8 They wore close trousers, which they called bracæ; these trousers, an article of apparel by which all barbaric nations seem to have been distinguished from the Romans, being made of their chequered cloth, called breach and brycan, and by the Irish, breacan.
2. a. Orig., a loose-fitting garment of cloth worn by men, covering the loins and legs to the ankles; sometimes said to have been worn over close-fitting breeches or pantaloons; now applied generally to any two-legged outer garment worn by both sexes, and extending from the waist usu. to the ankles. (Also a pair of trousers.) Cf. trouse n.2 2, pantaloon 3 c.
In early use esp. worn by sailors, later by soldiers, and gradually becoming common from about 1820. Subsequently distinguished from breeches chiefly by covering the whole leg, and by not being shaped so as to fit tightly: cf. breech.
1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1661/4 John Clarke, a stout Man,..in..a pair of Buck skin Leather Breeches..(sometimes wearing Trousers over his Breeches) rid away on a Grey Gelding. 1718Ozell tr. Tournefort's Voy. Levant I. Life 9 All he could afford himself was a Thrum-cap, Linen Trowzers, and a Pair of Wooden Shoes. 1731Gentl. Mag. Nov. 474/2 Instead of Breeches, he proposes that the Ladies should wear Trowsers, which will be particularly convenient for those who have not handsome Legs. 1742J. Parry True Anti-Pamela 216 note, Trowzers are commonly worn by those that ride Post down into the North, and are very warm; at the same Time, they keep the Coat, Breeches, &c., very clean, by being wore over them. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 29 Orellana and his companions..having prepared their weapons, and thrown off their trouzers and the more cumbrous part of their dress, came all together on the quarter-deck. 1768Wales in Phil. Trans. LX. 108 Breeches made of seal, or deer skin, much in the form of our seamens short trousers. 1772Cook Voy. S. Pole i. ii. (1777) I. 20, I..gave to each man the fearnought jacket and trowsers allowed them by the Admiralty. 1786Gentl. Mag. Sept. 814/1 Twenty-five boys belonging to the Marine Society, in new jackets and trowsers. 1814Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) XI. 504, I beg leave to recommend that 20,000 shirts, 20,000 pairs of socks or stockings and 6,000 pairs of trousers should be sent out to Tarragona. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 415 Shortly before or during the Peninsular war trousers were introduced.
b. The loose bag-like drawers or pantaloons worn by both sexes in Muslim countries.
1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia M. xix. 66 Their ladies wear..large trowsers or breeches, which reach to the ancle. 1810E. D. Clarke Trav. Russia (1839) 62/1 The dress of a Cossack girl is elegant; a silk tunic, with trousers fastened by a girdle of solid silver [etc.]. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) II. 57 The Murwuts..are tall, fair men, and wear a pair of loose trowsers, something thrown over their shoulders, and a handkerchief tied round their heads. 1882Floyer Unexpl. Baluchistan 256 He had the ordinary white calico trowsers. 1913D. Bray Life-Hist. Brahui ii. 31 A girl should be put into trousers as soon as she is two, or at the most four.
c. White frilled or trimmed drawers reaching to the ankles (or nearly so), worn by women and girls, and young boys, about the second quarter of the 19th c.; pantalettes.
1820M. Wilmot Let. 3 May (1935) 57 Catharine..has not one frock, or pair of trousers fit to wear, now that summer is coming. 1821Shelley 15 Aug. in Ingpen Life (1909) II. xix. 900 She was prettily dressed in white muslin, and an apron of black silk, with trousers. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xiv, Her little girls..wore little white trousers with frills round the ancles. 1844Ladies' Hand-bk. Haberdashery 56 Ladies' Wearing Apparel... Trowsers with Worked Bottoms. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xii, His hearty affection for the Rector dated from the age of frocks and trousers. 1873J. Ashby-Sterry Shuttlecock Papers 95 Girls..in short frocks, frilled trousers, and broad blue sashes.
d. Applied to the hair on the hind legs of certain dogs, esp. those of long-coated breeds.
1948C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Britain 464 Trousers.—The hair on the hindquarters of any dog. 1949L. E. Naylor Poodles v. 44 They [sc. poodles] enjoy having any kind of smart clip, because they dislike their trousers being muddy. 1962R. H. Smythe Anat. Dog Breeding vii. 133 The loose trousers wrinkled round the knees and pasterns of the Dachshund.
3. In various colloq. phrases.
a. anything in trousers, etc.: any man, whether eligible, suitable, or not.
1887Lantern 14 May 3/1 They go crazy over everything that wears trousers. 1979A. Price Tomorrow's Ghost i. 9 Anything in trousers was as much Target for Tonight to Marilyn Francis as Marilyn Francis was for anything in trousers.
b. not in these trousers: certainly not.
1920P. Gibbs Realities of War iv. vii. 189 ‘Come up and have a look, Jack,’ he said to one of the blue-jackets. ‘Not in these trousers, old mate!’ said that young man. 1929R. C. Sherriff Journey's End iii. ii. 71 She said, ‘Not in these trousers’—in French. 1939J. Cary Mister Johnson 247 You think perhaps we leave the money in the till and you tief 'em. Not in these trousers, Mister Poldedoodle.
c. to wear the trousers: to be the dominant member of a household. Also transf. Cf. breech n. 2, pants n. pl. 1 e.
1931R. Campbell Georgiad i. 11 It is you must ‘wear the trousers’ now. 1959J. L. Austin Sense & Sensibilia (1962) ii. 15 It is essential to realize that here the notion of perceiving indirectly wears the trousers. 1963A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex iii. 33 A married couple where the woman ‘wears the trousers’.
d. (to catch) with one's trousers down: in a state of embarrassing unpreparedness. Cf. pants n. pl. 1 c. slang.
1966Guardian 31 Mar. 14/8 Catch them with their trousers down. 1967‘F. Clifford’ All Men are Lonely Now ii. vii. 234 By that time the shooting will seem to be as haphazard as can possibly be, as if we'd almost been caught with our trousers down. 1980J. Gardner Garden of Weapons ii. vii. 186 A job... Took us by surprise: with the trousers down.
4. a. In sing. form trouser, in various senses. (See also attrib. and combinations in 5.)
[1609: see strosser.] 1702Addison Dial. Medals i. Wks. 1766 III. 17 Of the old British Trowser. 1823Scott Quentin D. Introd., All the rest was mustache, pelisse, and calico trowser. 1885Stevenson Dynamiter i. 2, I have scarcely a decent trouser in my wardrobe.
b. A single leg of a pair of trousers (in quots. transf.).
1893M. Cholmondeley Diana Tempest v, A little palm near had its one slender leg draped in an impromptu Turkish trouser, made out of an amber handkerchief. 1899― Red Pottage ix, One melancholy Scotch fir embarrassed by its trouser of ivy.
5. attrib. and Comb. (more usually in sing. form trouser), as trouser-brace (brace n.2 9 b), trouser-button, trouser-finisher, trouser-fly, trouser-hem, trouser-knee, trouser-leg, trouser-lining, trouser-making, trouser-pocket, trouser-seat, trouser-wearer; trouser-wearing adj.; also trouser-band, the waistband of a pair of trousers; trouser-bottoms pl., the lower parts of the legs of a pair of trousers; † trouser breeches = sense 1; trouser-clips pl., clips (of various kinds) used by cyclists to confine the trousers round the ankles; trouser-cuff, the turn-up on a trouser-leg; trouser-press, a contrivance for pressing the legs of trousers so as to produce a crease; trouser-presser, a workman engaged in ironing trousers; also = trouser-press; trouser-stockings, ? waterproof overalls or leggings used by fishermen; trouser-strap, a strap passing beneath the instep and attached at each end to the bottom of the trouser-leg; trouser-stretcher, a device for stretching trousers so as to take out any ‘bagginess’; trouser suit, a woman's suit consisting of matching jacket and trousers; hence trouser-suited a.; trouser zip, a zip used as a fastening, usu. at the front of a pair of trousers.
1892Zangwill Childr. Ghetto I. 221 His blue bandana..tied round his *trouser-band. 1896A. Morrison Child of the Jago 126 He gave a hitch to his trousers-band.
1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxiv. 388 He..pulled on his boots. They were sodden, as were his socks and *trouser-bottoms. 1973A. Ross Dunfermline Affair 116 My trouser bottoms were wet.
1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. viii. (ed. 2) 286 The shoulder⁓strings..cross behind like *trouser-braces.
1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 1 James..hated novelties. He..hunted in the most cumbrous and inconvenient of all dresses, a ruff and *trowser breeches.
1898Daily News 22 Nov. 7/3 Stanley once characterised the Heligoland Treaty as follows: ‘England received in exchange for a *trouser-button a new suit of clothes’.
1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1379/2 Lucas's *Trouser Clips. Per pair 0/3. 1908H. G. Wells War in Air ii. 33 A small, dissolute-looking shop in the High Street, adorned with..a display of bells, trouser-clips, oil cans..and other accessories. 1970K. Giles Death in Church i. 11 Horace Drood adjusted his trouser clips and resentfully pedalled off.
1931, etc. *Trouser-cuff [see cuff n.1 2 d]. 1942C. Barrett On Wallaby v. 90, I had fifteen-inch trouser cuffs, while my coat sleeves were about half-mast high. 1982H. Engel Murder on Location (1983) xxiii. 207, I squeezed water from my shoes and trouser cuffs.
1887W. Westall Her Two Millions li, She was a *trousers finisher.
1922Joyce Ulysses The slits of his buttoned *trouserfly.
1896Mrs. Caffyn Quaker Grandmother 251 John..flicked an atom of fluff off his *trouser-knee.
1849Cupples Green Hand xiii. (1856) 130 One of his long *trowser-legs. 1901G. Douglas House w. Green Shutters 239 They stopped—their trouser-legs flapping behind them.
1909E. Banks Myst. Fr. Farrington 37 A strip of his *trousers-lining.
1906Daily News 8 Mar. 6 Her work of *trousers-making yields her a good deal less than a penny an hour.
1852J. S. Coyne Box & Cox married & Settled 9, I demand your card, sir?.. You'll find it in my left-hand *trowsers' pocket. 1856Geo. Eliot Ess. (1884) 106 His hands stuck in his trouser-pockets. 1898W. W. Jacobs Sea Urchins, Money-changers (1906) 223 The fare..rose slowly and felt in his trousers-pocket.
1905H. A. Vachell The Hill iii. 49 He possessed a *trouser-press.
1887Pall Mall G. 4 Nov. 8/1 They had heard Allman, the *trousers-presser, say, ‘Now, gentlemen, I'm going to talk sedition’. 1906Daily Chron. 25 Apr. 8/2 The crease..savours of the automatic trousers-pressers,..rather than of the hot iron of the tailor.
1923D. H. Lawrence Ladybird 243 He would have slid the whole way down on his *trouser-seat. 1960Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing viii. 90 Gives a woman a start, naturally, to come into her son's bedroom and observe an alien trouser-seat sticking out from under the dressing table.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 45 The *Trouser-Stockings..and Cork Jackets are indispensable adjuncts.
1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 176/2 Improved apparatus to be attached to trowsers, commonly called *trowser-straps. 1860E. Falkener Dædalus, Mod. Art ii. 202 German hobnailed boots and leather trouser-straps.
1939Vogue Dec. (Advt., verso front cover), Digby Morton, famous tailleur, created this *trouser suit in a bright tartan ‘Viyella’. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places v. 174 She was waiting for him..in a cream-coloured trouser-suit.
1973‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Starry Bird iv. 47 The girls were thin, *trouser-suited and purposeful, with Pat Nixon hairdos.
1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 590 Xenia, who is the one and only *trouser wearer in our band, spends fifty per cent. of the night on one leg struggling to get the other in or out of these garments.
c1820H. Bourne Let. in N. & Q. 9th ser. IX. 489/2 That *trousers-wearing, beer-drinking Clowes will never get to heaven.
1966Olney Amsden & Sons Ltd. Price List 44 Lightning *Trouser Zipps. 1976P. Dickinson King & Joker vi. 70 ‘Shall I show you something, little girl?’ he whispered. His hand was at his trouser-zip.
Hence ˈtrouser v. trans. slang, to put (money, etc.) into the trouser-pocket, to pocket; ˈtrouserdom, the realm of trousers; the wearing of trousers; ˈtrousered |-əd| a., wearing or dressed in trousers; also fig.; ˈtrouserettes, (a) girls' ‘knickerbockers’; (b) short trousers; trouˈserian a. nonce-wd., of or pertaining to trousers; ˈtrouserless a., without trousers; wearing or having no trousers.
c1890G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. vi. (1900) 183 The sheriff *trousered the dollars! 1892Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., To trouser is to put money into one's pocket, that is, to earn; a slang expression used by cabmen.
1882Pall Mall G. 27 Oct. 2 The regeneration of feminine attire will never be compassed by the way of *trouserdom.
1789M. Madan Persius (1795) 81 The *trowzer'd Medes. 1825Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 319 The tarred, and trowsered, and blue-and-buff crew whose very vicinage I..detest. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 49 My pipe..was..pretty well ‘trousered’, as they call it [cf. Fr. culotter un pipe]. 1895L. Dougall Question of Faith 277 The roadside elms, trowsered to the ground with brush of branches.
1874J. Ashby-Sterry Tiny Trav. 284 Troublesome Twelve in..the frilliest of frilled *Trouserettes. 1896Godey's Mag. Apr. 387/2 Bloomers, very short tunics, or trouserettes. 1924W. de la Mare Ding Dong Bell 30 A little boy in velveteen trouserettes. 1961New Statesman 28 Apr. 658/2 The huge arthritic waiters stared..at Mart's rather strange check pantaloons. A party of secure business people were eating lobsters, and one of them..giggled at these semi-tropical trouserettes.
c1820L. Hunt Secret Existing Fashions Ess. (1887) 276 Round comes the kindly *trouserian veil,..the legs retreat..into retirement.
1848A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich v. 33 A heavy pea-coat his *trouserless trunk enwrapping. 1857in Ld. Dufferin Lett. High Lat. vii. 124 Before I knew where I was, I found myself sitting on a chair, in my shirt, *trowserless.
▸ trouser role n. (a) (in opera) a young male role sung by a woman, typically a contralto or mezzo-soprano; = pants role n. at pants n. Compounds 2; (b) Theatre a role in which a female character disguises herself as a man.
1955N.Y. Times 15 Nov. 38/2 Mildred Miller, as Nicklausse, fills another of her many *Trouser roles amiably. 1986E. Zimmerman in J. L. Dameron & J. W. Mathews No Fairer Land 137 By September 21..she had played six different roles, including a trouser role (Florence in The Curfew). 1999Opus Summer 26/1 On stage, Kasarova cuts a heroic figure in trouser roles.
▸ trouser snake n. slang the penis (recorded earliest in one-eyed trouser snake at one-eyed adj. 2).
1968B. Humphries Wonderful World Barry McKenzie I got this air hostess up to me sheilah trap—uncoiled the old one-eyed *trouser snake. 1976A. Boot & M. Thomas Jamaica 76/2 To reduce them to awe and wonderment at the size of his great Texas trouser snake. 2005N.Y. Post (Nexis) 5 Mar. 22 Lee was game and let his trouser snake loose.
▸ trousers role n. = trouser role n. (a) at Additions.
1969Newark (Ohio) Advocate & Amer. Tribune 1 Mar. 7/1 Christa Ludwig..sang the *trousers role of the young Count Octavian. 1992Opera Canada Winter 35/3 Nancy Maultsby in the trousers role of Ramiro..also impressed. |