† strouse Obs. rare.
Also strouce.
= trouse n.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 tr. Boccacio's Decameron vii. iii. 29 b, [Friar] Reynard being stript into his Trusse and straite Strouses. |