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trouserdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From trouser + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The world or sphere of trousers.
    • A NEW ARRIVAL IN TROUSERDOM 1912, The Clothier and Furnisher, volume 80, page 12:
    • […] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […] 1882, The Pall Mall Budget, page 9: