Meaning of touser | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who or that which touses.
2. A large coarse apron.
   dialectal

Examples

“He [a correspondent] continues:—‘[‘]If you were in Buryan Church-town this evening, you might probably hear⟳ Betty Trenoweth say⟳, ‘I ’ll take⟳ off my touser, [toute serve⟳,] and run⟳ up to Janey Angwins to cousey [causer] a spell⟳; there ’s a lot of boys gone in there, so there ’ll be a grand courant, [de courir,] I expect⟳.’[…]” The touser is a large apron or wrapper to come⟳ quite round and keep⟳ the under garments clean⟳.”

“Leah is comely in the sunshine, Madelon thinks, with her freshly-colored, strongly-marked old Cornish face⟳, framed by black hair just flecked with white, under the broad hat such as the fishwives wear⟳; and the white touser, or quaint apron, gives a natty look⟳ to the shortgown.”

“The women, when gathering fuel, often carried a sack to put⟳ it in and brought it home on their heads. Other used their “tousers” to carry⟳ it up. The touser is a big apron made of sacking with four strings to tie it, two long ones to tie around the waist and two short to tie behind, lower down. They would fill⟳ up the touser and tie up the four corners and also carry⟳ that on their heads.”

“For outdoor work⟳, which she [Mary] was expected to do, she wore a touser apron: a flour sack cut⟳ open⟳ and sewn into an apron.”

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