trowserless

English

Etymology

trowsers +‎ -less

Adjective

trowserless (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of trouserless.
   • 1824, John Dundas Cochrane, Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka:

     He put on his jacket and one waistcoat as usual, tied his other waistcoat around his body, so as to serve as a sort of short petticoat reaching to his knees, restored his empty knapsack te its old place, and then shirtless and trowserless, bareheaded and barefooted, "trotted on," to use his own language "with even a merry heart."

   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo:

     They were trowserless fellows, in a uniform of calico shirts and pasteboard hats; armed with muskets of all shapes and calibres, and commanded by a great noisy chief, strutting it in a coat of fiery red.