betrousered
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]betrousered (not comparable)
- (usually humorous) Wearing pants or trousers.
- 1862 August, William Edmondstoune Aytoun (anonymously), "The Rights of Women", Blackwood's Magazine, p. 182:
- [W]hat undoubted mastery they have gained over some scores of betrousered twaddlers
- 1911, David Graham Phillips, The Grain of Dust:
- Their appreciations are dependant, often in the most curious indirect ways, upon the fact that the author […] is betrousered.
- 1986, Judie Newman, “Kate Chopin, Short Fiction and the Art of Subversion”, in Robert A. Lee, editor, The Nineteenth-century American short story, page 152:
- 'Regret' takes as its theme the regret of a betrousered old maid for the children she has never had.
- 1862 August, William Edmondstoune Aytoun (anonymously), "The Rights of Women", Blackwood's Magazine, p. 182: