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Definition of Trouse
1. n. Trousers.
Definition of Trouse
1. Noun. brushwood ¹
2. Noun. (Scotland) trousers (or similar garments) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trouse
1. trews [n -S] - See also: trews
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trouse
Literary usage of Trouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Complete Glossary to the Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns: With Upwards of by John Cuthbertson (1886)
"Trews and trouse. trousers. The leather quilted jack serves under his shirt of
mail, and to cover his trouse on horseback. —Spenser. Then Dr. Ridley said, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1881)
"The word applied to such dead branches in Shropshire is trouse. Other words
connected with the science of hedging are as follows, verbs, to tine, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The leather quilted jack serves under his shirt of mail, and to cover his trouse
on horseback. The unsightliness and pain in the leg may be Spenser. helped ..."
4. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1839)
"WEE Willie Gray, and his leather wallet; Peel a willie wand to be him boots and
jacket; The rose upon the brier will be him trouse and doublet, ..."
5. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. ¡V. Tresses. Thy gay, green, flowery tresses shear, EL on Ca}t. Af. /Л, 12.
Trews, trouse [trousers]. S. The Battle of Sherra-Moor. ..."
6. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"Spenser, in_ his work on Ireland, says, 'The leather-quilted jack serves ...
to cover his trouse on horse-back.' In Bulwer's 'Pedigree of the English ..."
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