trouser

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Examples

• The áo dài, from Vietnam, is a gown with trousers typically reserved for a special occasion.

• Using a cubicle, right, you’ve got to walk down a lot of cubicles, find one that’s free, go in, turn around, hang up your coat, probably wipe the seat because inevitably it’s disgusting, pull down your trousers, sit down and then reverse the process.

• It’s like buying a pair of expensive trousers—the fit is so important, and the chasm between how men’s and women’s snowboarding pants fit is just too wide to make it work.

• Traditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.

• I liked the feel of her thigh through the silk against my trouser leg.

• A couple of minutes later, the 2nd Platoon medic lifted my right trouser.

• He raised the skirt of his heavy top-coat, and from his trouser-pocket drew out a leather purse.

• As he stepped, his old black trouser leg pulled up over his shoe top, and we saw that he wore no stockings.

• So we shortened up one of the calico gowns, and I turned up my trouser-legs to my knees and got into it.

• His trouser leg was sticky red where the wound in his leg had soaked through the handkerchief.

• The trouser, then—the modern trouser—what are we to say of this?