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TROUSER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A garment (or part of a garment) designed for or relating to trousers
Example:
he ripped his left trouser on the fence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("trouser" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Holonyms ("trouser" is a part of...):
pair of trousers; pant; trousers ((usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately)
Context examples:
By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Thermal paper receipts are easily identified by the customer since they are those receipts that, after some time, lose what they have printed on them and, when you are going to return the trousers you bought, the cashiers tell you that they cannot see anything.
(Purchase receipts with easily erasable ink contain cancer- and infertility inducing substances, University of Granada)
A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
This person (who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity) was dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable; his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement—the trousers hanging on his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground, the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I examined them with care, and there was no doubt that they were trouser buttons.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Another stride was in the direction of creased trousers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His dress was quiet and sombre—a black frock-coat, dark trousers, and a touch of colour about his necktie.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When Steerforth, in white trousers, carried her parasol for her, I felt proud to know him; and believed that she could not choose but adore him with all her heart.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
