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trews
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synonyms: ~strossers, ~breeks, ~inexpressibles ???
tags: [britain] [fashion]
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Definition:the vest and breeches united in one piece, and ornamented with fringes, were very comfortable, and suitable to be worn in walking or dancing.Joseph Jacobs. Celtic Fairy Tales: The Sprightly Tailor (1861)---men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from Scottish Highland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin, especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on horseback.Tartan trews shared the fate of other items of Highland dress, including proscription under the Dress Act of 1746 that banned men and boys from wearing the truis ("Trowse") outside of military service. The Dress Act lasted until 1782 when it was repealed under the reign of King George III.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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A sprightly tailor was employed by the great Macdonald, in his castle at Saddell, in order to make the laird a pair of trews, used in olden time.
Joseph Jacobs. Celtic Fairy Tales: The Sprightly Tailor (1861)
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Near him were what I assumed must be the intimate members of Colum’s staff: a thin-faced man in trews and smocked shirt, who lounged against the wall;
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He wore a long unsleeved garment of recently flayed oxhide reaching to the knees in a loose kilt and this was bound about his middle by a girdle of plaited straw and rushes. Beneath this he wore trews of deerskin, roughly stitched with gut.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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