trews
[trooz]
- close-fitting tartan trousers, worn especially by certain Scottish regiments.
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Origin of trews
1560–70; < Irish and Scots Gaelic triubhas < Old French trebus breeches
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He wore the "trews" of tartan, which in itself showed him a man of consideration.
Red Cap TalesSamuel Rutherford Crockett
Both battalions now wear dark green doublets and tartan "trews."
But here lieth the second difficulty—the Prince wears no boots, but simply brogues and trews.'
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, CompleteSir Walter Scott
Do you guard our prisoner here, while I, dressed in his trews and bonnet, carry the letter to the Duke.
A Daughter of RaasayWilliam MacLeod Raine
But here lieth the second difficulty—The Prince wears no boots, but simply brogues and trews.'
WaverleySir Walter Scott
trews
- mainly British close-fitting trousers, esp of tartan cloth and worn by certain Scottish soldiers
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Word Origin
C16: from Scottish Gaelic triubhas, from Old French trebus; see trousers
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