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  • adjective Without trousers.

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Examples

  • Then he bade take Badr al-Din Hasan out of the chest, after loosing the fetters from his feet and stripping off all that was on him save the fine shirt of blue silk in which he had slept on his wedding-night; so that he was well-nigh naked and trouserless.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • A disgusting frined of mine was busy porking some horror she would have to be behind a handy skip and sadly for him the law turned up and yanked him trouserless into the well lit street.

    The Best Comeback Line Ever 2007

  • The massacre was the work of the san-cullotes, the trouserless ones, who felt that Paris and the de-facto government would be in danger should they leave to fight the Duke of Bruswicks forces assembled for an attack to restore the throne.

    Archive 2007-12-16 de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • The massacre was the work of the san-cullotes, the trouserless ones, who felt that Paris and the de-facto government would be in danger should they leave to fight the Duke of Bruswicks forces assembled for an attack to restore the throne.

    Charlotte Corday a Short Biography de Brantigny........................ 2007

  • It shows the trouserless and excited leader of the nascent Pan-African Movement Over Ancestral Land (PAMOA) throwing a match towards a fuel tank marked with a skull-and-crossbones device and the words "Land Issues - Danger Highly Inflammable."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • He folded time over the back of a chair and paraded around it, trouserless and unashamed, sniffing at the rose that never fades.

    Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990

  • Sans-culottes simply means not trouserless, as some people think it does, but it means without stockings.

    Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution 1989

  • Then he bade take Badr al-Din Hasan out of the chest, after loosing the fetters from his feet and stripping off all that was on him save the fine shirt of blue silk in which he had slept on his wedding night, so that he was well-nigh naked, and trouserless.

    Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981

  • Mulock was at once released, and, coatless, hatless, and all but trouserless, he made his way through the hooting multitude, and left the plantation, a blacker, if not a wiser and a better man.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Squatting on the floor were three trouserless, dirt-incrusted boys; he was pointing at a chart standing before their eyes, and all together they were shouting some word that exploded away down in their throats in tremendous effort and never seemed to reach their lips.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

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