Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as trossers.

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Examples

  • O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode, like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in your straight strossers.

    The Life of King Henry the Fifth 2004

  • 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.

    Ulysses 2003

  • O! then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode, like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your straight strossers.

    Act III. Scene VII. The Life of King Henry the Fifth 1914

  • Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode, like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in your straight strossers.

    The Life of King Henry V 1599

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  • 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.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 9

    January 6, 2007