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two fabric tubes that quietly civilized the entire species, one leg at a time
means A garment covering the body from the waist down, split into two separate tubes for the legs.
from From the older English 'trouse' or 'trews,' borrowed from the Irish 'triús' and Scottish Gaelic 'triubhas,' words for close-fitting leg coverings worn in the Gaelic world. The plural 's' got tacked on by analogy with 'drawers' and 'breeches' — garments that, like scissors and pliers, English insists on treating as paired things. So a single object stubbornly stays grammatically plural to this day.
war originadopted from horse-riding nomads who needed leg armor
roman scornRomans mocked trousers as barbarian clothing for centuries
banned in parisa law against women in trousers lasted until 2013
word rootcomes from Gaelic triubhas, meaning close-fitting shorts