A French officer had discharged his pistol by mistake, and he lay on the floor in his scarlet trews.
"My War Experiences in Two Continents"
Sarah Macnaughtan
"It would be easier, as well as more accurate," said the Commandant, pensively regarding the Sergeant's legs, "to call them trews.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
Besides, it was observed that Otho's officers were much more inoffensive, both towards the public and to private men, than those of Vitellius; among whom was Caecina, who used neither the language nor the apparel of a citizen; an overbearing, foreign-seeming man, of gigantic stature and always dressed in trews and sleeves, after the manner of the Gauls, whilst he conversed with Roman officials and magistrates.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh