trousersed

English

Adjective

trousersed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of trousered
   • 1895 May 14, “In Social Life”, in The Herald, volume LXIV, number 33, Los Angeles, Calif., page 6:

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

   • 1898, Haldane MacFall, “The Child Dyle has suddenly to Look at Life in the Large”, in The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer: Being the personal history of Jehu Sennacherib Dyle, commonly called Masheen Dyle; together with an account of certain things that chanced in the House of the Sorcerer, London: William Heinemann, page 7:

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

   • 1911 May, “For Small Boys”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume 45, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 231:

     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.

   • 1914 February 28, “A Story of Sam Shortridge”, in Times-Gazette‎^[1], volume LV, number 43, Redwood City, Calif.:

     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.

   • 1957, The Journal - Institute of Journalists, page 5:

     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.

   • 1989 January 17, Robert Hurwitt, “Miller’s ‘Sons’ packs a wallop”, in San Francisco Examiner, 124th year, number 189, page B-6:

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