Obs. Also 6 straser. [Of obscure origin: the relation to TROUSER is uncertain. Cf. STROUSE.] = TROUSER.
1598. in Malone’s Shaks. (1790), I. II. 301. Item, iij payer of red strasers and iij fares gowne of buckrome.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., III. vii. 57. Belike she was old and gentle, and you rode like a Kerne of Ireland, your French Hose off, and in your strait Strossers.
1609. Dekker, Gull’s Horn-bk., i. 7. The Italians close strosser, nor the French standing coller.
c. 1613. Middleton, No Wit like Woman’s, II. i. 39. His son a-horseback in cloth-of-gold breeches, while he himself goes to the devil a-foot in a pair of old strossers!
1637. I. Jones & Davenant, Brit. Triumphans, 15. His Squire apparell’d in a yellow Coat, with wide sleeves, and strossers cut in paines of yellow and watchet.
