trousse

French

trousse (plural trousses)

1. A case for small implements.

   a surgeon's trousse

• Souters, Strouse, estrous, oestrus, ousters, rousest, sestuor, sourest, souters, toruses, tousers, trouses, tussore, œstrus

• IPA^(key): /tʁus/
• Rhymes: -us

Deverbal of trousser.

trousse f (plural trousses)

Hunting trousse, England, 1560-1580. Contains all the instruments needed by a hunter to dismember and prepare a deer.

1. kit (small handheld package containing a set of tools for a particular purpose)

   trousse de secours ― first-aid kit

2. pencil case

• trousseau
• trousse de toilette

See the etymology of the main entry.

trousse

1. inflection of trousser:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “trousse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• tousser