单词 | trousers band |
释义 | > as lemmastrousers band c. In combinations with more specific meaning, corresponding to the compounds of trouser defined at Compounds 1d, as in trousers band, trousers bottom, trousers presser, trousers role, trousers wearer, trousers zip, etc. ΚΠ 1838 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 489 I took him round the waist or trousers band. 1842 Westmorland Gaz. & Kendal Advertiser 12 Mar. His trousers bottoms were ‘splashed’. 1842 Bristol Mercury 23 July 6/5 William Jackson was indicted for stealing a pair of trousers' braces, a pen-knife, and pocket-comb. a1852 H. Bourne Let. in Notes & Queries (1902) 21 June 489/2 That trousers-wearing, beer-drinking Clowes will never get to heaven. 1869 C. H. Ross London Romance 1 iv. xi. 272 It must do a cynic's heart good to know that the female mind can conceive such a preposterously robust, manly, diabolically clever ideal of a trousers-wearer. 1869 Argus (Melbourne) 5 Aug. 1/4 Trousers pressers wanted; those used to shrinking preferred. 1906 Daily Chron. 25 Apr. 8/2 The crease..savours of the automatic trousers-pressers,..rather than of the hot iron of the tailor. 1908 Lincoln (Nebraska) Daily Star 13 July 10/4 The trousers cuffs, the frilly pocket flaps, and other innovations are to be tabooed. 1961 Times Record (Troy, N.Y.) 25 Mar. b13/2 Miss Resnik is superb in the trousers role. 2016 Northern Echo (Nexis) 1 Mar. He [sc. an MP] had paid a quick visit to the gents just before he was due to make a speech and snarled up his trousers zip, leaving an aperture in a very delicate area. < as lemmas |
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