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trouserettes

trouserettes noun: a baggy women's garment that covered each leg separately, elasticized at waist and ankle, used as a replacement for the petticoat; bloomers.

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
    • “We think our blue and brown smocks and trouserettes are as honorable and significant a uniform as that of the soldiers in khaki,” said one young woman who was engaged in the dangerous handling of cordite. All women who work on machinery wear trouserettes and many have had their hair cut short in...1918, The Textile Worker: Official Journal of the United Textile Workers of America, page 57

Examples of trouserettes in a sentence

  • All women who work on machinery wear trouserettes and many have had their hair cut short in the interest of safety and comfort.1918, The Textile Worker: Official Journal of the United Textile Workers of America, page 57:
  • Red trouserettes on waitresses cause stir1921 April 28, Buffalo Express, volume LXXVI, number 89, Buffalo, N.Y., page 2:

Forms of trouserettes

alternative formtrouserette

Origin of trouserettes

From trouser + -ette + -s.

Questions about trouserettes

What does trouserettes mean?
Trouserettes means a baggy women's garment that covered each leg separately, elasticized at waist and ankle, used as a replacement for the petticoat; bloomers.
How do you use trouserettes in a sentence?
All women who work on machinery wear trouserettes and many have had their hair cut short in the interest of safety and comfort.
What part of speech is trouserettes?
Trouserettes is a noun.

Words near trouserettes in the dictionary

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

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