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trouseredclass (pluraltrousered classes)

1. Thesocial class of those who areeducated and who performskilledwork for a living.
   • 1965, Sri Lanka. Pārlimēntuva. Senate,Parliamentary Debates - Volume 22, Issues 16-27, page2461:

     From 1947 to 1956 the so-called freedom was simply confined to thetrousered class, the capitalist class, the class who could ride in big limousines.

   • 1973, Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard,Peoples of the earth - Volume 12, page120:

     They are part of the 'trousered class', highly educated and westernized.

   • 1991, Kurt A. Gingrich,Education and Empire:

     He joined the"trousered" class, which included "journalists, doctors, teachers, lawyers, clerks, ministers, managers, police, soldiers, students, and artists."

   • 2005, Trevor Griffiths,These are the Times: A Life of Thomas Paine, page13:

     In one half, merchants, professionals, speculators and country gentry, wigged, stocked, breeched and buckled, hold a million post-mortems on the day's dealings. In the other, thetrousered classes - artisans, skillmen, journeymen - argue the toss over ale and pie. The boundary is fluid, but the lines are clearly drawn.

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