strossers

English

Noun

strossers pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic) trousers
    • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, Act 3, Scene 7,
      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.
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses,
      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.

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