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trousers Definition

trou·sers (tro̵uzərz)

an outer garment, esp. for men and boys, extending from the waist generally to the ankles, and divided into separate coverings for the legs; pants

Etymology: lengthened (prob. modeled on drawers) < obs. trouse < Gael triubhas, trews

trousers Related Forms
trou·ser adjective
trousers Synonyms

trousers

n.

pants, slacks, breeches, knickerbockers; see clothes, pants 1.

trousers Quotes

They have asked me for my trousers, and I have given them; for my coat, and I have given that also; now they want my life, and that I cannot give.

—Kruger, Paulus

I grow old†I grow old† I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Why haven't Igot a real'home'öa real lifeöwhyhaven't Igot a Chinesenurse with green trousers and two babies who rush at me and clasp my knees? I'm not a girlöI'm a woman. I want things†all this love and joy that fights for outletöand all this life drying up, like milk in an old breast.

—Beauchamp

I'll be irreproachably tender; not a man, butöa cloud in trousers!

—Mayakovsky,Vladimir

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains fromshowing unlesshehastoand keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

—Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

—Bennett, Alan

The Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split secondöcomics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators,Coke bottlesöall the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.

—Warhol, Andy

PoetryontheairsoundsliketheMusesinstripedtrousers.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair

En skulde aldrig ha'sine bedste buxer pafi  , nafi   r en er ude og strider for frihed og sandhed. You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.

—Ibsen, HenrikJohan

We declare: the genius of our days to be: trousers, jackets, shoes, tramways, buses, aeroplanes, railways, magnificent shipsöwhat an enchantmentöwhat a great epoch unrivalled in world history. 490

—Larionov, Mikhail

She is trying to wear the trousers of Winston Churchill.

—Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich

Browse dictionary entries near trousers

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