trouse

British  

/ traʊz /

plural noun

1. close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland

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Etymology

Origin of trouse

from Irish and Scot Gaelic triubhas : compare _trews

Example Sentences

And do you spurn your trousers, a multiplication of the already bifurcated trouse and trews?

From The Guardian

Southern Culture on the Skids The Chapel Hill, N.C., trio, self-described as “Americana from the wrong side of the tracks,” recently released a collaborative EP with Fred Schneider of the B-52’s, “Party at My Trouse.”

From Washington Post

Are not trouse, and placket-holes, and pump-handles—and spigots and faucets, in danger still from the same association?——Chastity, by nature, the gentlest of all affections—give it but its head——’tis like a ramping and a roaring lion.

From Project Gutenberg

Trousers was earlier trouses, plural of trouse, now trews, and was used especially of Irish native costume.

From Project Gutenberg

I'se dunno what kind of thing that dandy is, but I 'members dat yer scarecrow what Claib make out of mas'r's trouse's and coat, an' put up in de cherry tree.

From Project Gutenberg