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Trowsers

Trowsers \Trow"sers\, n. pl. Same as Trousers.

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trowsers

n. (obsolete spelling of trousers English) (17th-19th c.)

Usage examples of "trowsers".

Tucking your trowsers up to your knees you will wade through the bogs, you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will be out of the reach of humanity.

He seats himself upon three chairs, takes a bite of tobacco, thrusts his hand into his trowsers pockets, and revels in an elysium of his own.

The object of this terrible denunciation of the wrath of the Almighty was a wretched little object indeed, just like a white rabbit--with pink eyes, a grey face and head, poor thin legs, a long tail-coat that came nearly to his heels, an awfully ragged pair of trowsers, and a liver charred with whisky.

His hands were in the pockets of his trowsers, and the wind was blowing about the tails of his old dress-coat.

His old tow trowsers and calico shirt revealed the shining fact in too many places to leave room for a question, and shoes he had none.

For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.

A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.

Nantucketer with disdain, since even in our woollen frocks and tarred trowsers we are much better entitled to St.

His dress was like that of a fisherman, consisting of blue serge trowsers, a shirt striped blue and white, and a Guernsey frock, which he carried flung across his shoulder.

Portlossie, some of whom, to whose lowland eyes the kilt was obnoxious, would have added a pair of trowsers, had not Miss Horn stoutly opposed them, confident that Duncan would regard the present as an insult.

Again and again I say to him--cannot the tailor cut down these trowsers of yours?

Now, do attempt to picture to yourself what an agony it must be to me:--he will shave, and he will wear those enormously high trowsers that, when they are braced, reach up behind to the nape of his neck!

I tell you: he will shave, and he will choose the time for shaving early after he has braced these immensely high trowsers that make such a placard of him.

He has but one answer--he has been accustomed to wear those trowsers, and he would not feel at home in another pair.

He shit like a firework they tore his trowsers off and vomited from nose and mouth, and bled through his ears and round his eyeballs.