Obs. Also 6 troussage, (trosache). [a. OF. troussage (14th c. in Godef.), f. F. trousser to TRUSS: see -AGE.] Articles ‘trussed’ or packed up, collectively; baggage; spec. booty carried off. Also attrib.
c. 1500. Melusine, xxi. 132. Who that myght flee, fledd toward theire folke that lede theyre proye, oxen, kyn & shep, swynes & othre troussage [orig. troussages].
1527. Acc. R. Gibson, in Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII., § 45 lf. 23 (P.R.O.). For trosache kasis.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII., 119 b. The Frenchmen were ready to depart with trussages and cariages.
