betrousered en · ADJ
Etymology
From be- + trousered.
Meanings
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(humorous, not-comparable, usually) Wearing pants or trousers.
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:[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. 182