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strossers

strossers noun: trousers.

Noun

strossers pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) trousers
    • O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers.1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Questions about strossers

What does strossers mean?
Strossers means trousers.
What part of speech is strossers?
Strossers is a noun.

Words near strossers in the dictionary

  1. stroppy
  2. strops
  3. Strosnider
  4. Strosniders
  5. strospeside
  6. strossers
  7. Strother
  8. Strothers
  9. Strotherses
  10. Strothman
  11. Strothmann

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