Meaning of trousersed | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“Do you want⟳ your brother, father, husband or lover to admire the trousersed female bicycle rider?”

“He was thrust aside by the patch-trousersed rogue Rule⟳ Britannia.”

“While the English heir to his father’s lands is clad in long trousersed sailor costumes which are most inconvenient for play⟳, his cousin across the channel is just as uncomfortably clad in costumes too elaborate to be suitable—or so it seems from the American point⟳ of view⟳.”

“Thirty years ago, Mr. Shortridge lived in Salem, and was the only trousersed citizen of that time and place⟳ who had the courage to assist Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway in her fight⟳ for woman suffrage.”

“What he would have⟳ said if we had written that a man was trousersed in pink satin, or that a tailor specialised in trousersings for morning-suits, I don’t know⟳.”

“Jennifer Telford’s costumes fare better, faithfully re-creating the wide-trousersed, padded-shouldered look⟳ of the post-war era.”

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