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Trouser

noun

(usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately. Synonym: pant.

A garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers. "He ripped his left trouser on the fence"

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"Trouser" Quotes from Famous Books

... bullets pattered on the ground about him and thudded into the trees and ploughed up the dirt at his feet. Nick bent his rifle on the sheriff and sent a bullet through his hat brim and another through his horse's ear, and bit his bridle with one and tore his trouser leg with another. One dropped and stung on the beast's fetlock as Tom sprang to his feet exclaiming, "Now ...

— With Hoops of Steel • Florence Finch Kelly

... trampers again at Chock Lake. They were thin, their legs making sharp creases in their trouser legs—I could see that as I neared them. They were walking desperately, reeling from side to side with weakness. There was no more smiling on their faces. One man, the smaller, had the countenance of a wolf, pinched in round the nose. His bony jaw was thrust forward resolutely. ...

— The Trail of the Goldseekers - A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse • Hamlin Garland

... thought were the dictates of "fashion" Chet wore his trousers very much turned up at the bottoms. They formed a sort of "pockets," and these pockets Andy industriously proceeded to fill with sand. Soon both trouser legs bulged ...

— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum

... opinion that the art of dumb show is almost useless to the player, the argument being that, as far at least as modern comedies are concerned, so little gesture is used on the stage that training in the mode of employing it is superfluous. The introduction of trouser pockets was said to have destroyed the need for gesture. In such views ...

— Our Stage and Its Critics • "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

... the grave, and the eldest of the boys among them, a practical youngster of seven years, made the proposition that there should be an exhibition of Puggie's burial-place for all who lived in the lane; the price of admission was to be a trouser button, for every boy would be sure to have one, and each might also give one for a little girl. This ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

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