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Trousers. From the Irish brog, resembling those still worn by some of the French cavalry, in which trousers and boots are all one garment.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.