Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Close-fitting trousers, usually of tartan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Trousers; specifically, the kind of trousers worn by the men of higher rank among the Scottish Highlanders. They are made of tartan cloth of the set or pattern of the wearer's clan.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tight-fitting trousers; usually of tartan
Etymologies
- Variant of obsolete trouse; see trouser. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He sat in a shaded corner of Avatre's pen, wearing the same tunic as Kiron himself and because he was not used to riding, a pair of the leggings that Heklatis called "trews" such as the barbarians wore, to keep his legs from being chafed raw on the inside.”
“He wore the "trews" of tartan, which in itself showed him a man of consideration.”
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“I'm with you on the whole 'trews' thing - if you really are that jock then wear a skirt!”
“His ill-fitting jeans and lumpy pockets said: "I'm just relaxing on holiday in these comfy old trews.”
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“Males always assumed she was of their sex, simply because she wore trews and carried a sword.”
““Now, shall I wear the nigh-transparent skirt”—Regin tapped her chin—“or the trews that encase me like a second skin?””
“Black trews of soft leather outlined his powerful legs.”
“This will be a man whose elevation will have owed much to keeping his subs up to date at the local masonic lodge and golf club and keeping his tartan trews in constant preparedness for his 99 annual Burns suppers.”
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“This from the host and his lady—he in tartan trews of red and green, she in velvet of a violent, unflattering purple.”
“At the thought of impregnating the female before him, his horns straightened even more, and his shaft pulsed in his trews.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trews’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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[Open] The Epos of Wordnik
Poems written by wordniks, for wordniks. (Look in the comments. No, they needn’t be in dactylic hexameter.)
sionnach, Kundry, alnwick, abandannad, sore eyes, sick chickens, Belgians with her..., sustainism, bilby, sumph, trews, sestertius and 4 more...
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Keyboard Hopscotch
You may start on any key. You may repeat a character, or travel to an adjacent key on the keyboard. On my qwerty keyboard, I may follow s with w, e, d, x, z, a, or (repeating) s. (If you use az...
assert, weeds, trews, treed, sewer, sewed, seeds, sawer, sawed, reeds, erred, asses and 65 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
ablative, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, ailanthus, aleatory, alfresco, algolagnia and 474 more...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2250784/
ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Below the Belt
Anything worn from the waist down.
chausses, pantaloons, britches, trossers, buckskins, chaps, galligaskins, gregs, gaskins, breeches, knee breeches, knee pants and 93 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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jonasword's list
My words unusual strange new clever or stupid
eleutherophobia, infandous, gormless, gumption, dolt, picaroon, crinkle, foofy, bathos, lugubrious, saturnine, spume and 33 more...
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peregrina's Words
burbot, groyne, ngultrum, trews, mugful, nutsedge, naut mi, frigger, butt rock
Tweets
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bilby
Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet,
Peel a willow wand to be him boots and jacket;
The rose upon the breir will be him trews an' doublet,
The rose upon the breir will be him trews an' doublet,
Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet,
Twice a lily-flower will be him sark and cravat;
Feathers of a flee wad feather up his bonnet,
Feathers of a flee wad feather up his bonnet.
- Robert Burns, 'Wee Willie Gray'. Jan 28, 2009