trousering

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   cloth suitable for making trousers, especially material sold or discussed for that purpose

   The tailor showed him several weights of wool trousering before taking his measurements.

Formed in English from trouser + -ing, on the pattern of names for cloth intended for a particular garment. Trouser is an alteration of the earlier trouse, from Scottish Gaelic triubhas. The fabric sense is now chiefly British and somewhat dated.

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