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trouserette

trouserette is the alternative form of trouserettes.

Meaning of trouserettes

Noun

trouserettes pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) A baggy women's garment that covered each leg separately, elasticized at waist and ankle, used as a replacement for the petticoat; bloomers.
    • ANYBODY who thinks that the suffragettes are going to take to trouserettes, anybody who expects to see a suffragette in trouserettes telling the world from a soap box on a street corner that taxation without representation is tyranny, has only to mention trouserettes to a few suffragettes to find...1911 March 19, “No Trouser Skirts for Them: Suffragists Have No Use for Bifurcated Garments”, in The Sioux City Journal, page 6

Forms of trouserette

pluraltrouserettes

Origin of trouserette

From trouser + -ette.

Questions about trouserette

What is trouserette the alternative form of?
Trouserette is the alternative form of trouserettes.

Words near trouserette in the dictionary

  1. trouser tents
  2. trouserdom
  3. trousered
  4. trousered class
  5. trousered classes
  6. trouserette
  7. trouserettes
  8. trouserian
  9. trousering
  10. trouserings
  11. trouserless

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