Obs. rare. Also strouce. = TROUSE sb.2 Cf. STROSSER. Obs.
1600. Sir J. Oldcastle, V. x. 124. Irish. Prethee, Lord shudge, let me haue mine own clothes, my strouces there.
1620. trans. Boccacios Decameron, VII. iii. 29 b. [Friar] Reynard being stript into his Trusse and straite Strouses.