Meanings
adjectivebetrousered (not comparable)
- humorousnot comparableusuallyWearing pants or trousers.
[W]hat undoubted mastery they have gained over some scores of betrousered twaddlers
1862 August, William Edmondstoune Aytoun (anonymously), "The Rights of Women", Blackwood's Magazine, p. 1822 more examples
Their appreciations are dependant, often in the most curious indirect ways, upon the fact that the author […] is betrousered.
1911, David Graham Phillips, The Grain of Dust'Regret' takes as its theme the regret of a betrousered old maid for the children she has never had.
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
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