red-trousered

The iconic Manet here is "The Fifer," the boy musician in a red-trousered army uniform.

The Best and the Rest David Littlejohn 2010

I looked around and realized that play had stopped on the pitch and herds of thin women in fluttery dresses were being marched toward the safety of the car park, closely followed by their red-trousered companions, all making furious calls on their mobiles.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

I looked around and realized that play had stopped on the pitch and herds of thin women in fluttery dresses were being marched toward the safety of the car park, closely followed by their red-trousered companions, all making furious calls on their mobiles.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

I looked around and realized that play had stopped on the pitch and herds of thin women in fluttery dresses were being marched toward the safety of the car park, closely followed by their red-trousered companions, all making furious calls on their mobiles.

The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

The first object that caught the general's eye as he slowly turned into the square by the little station was their four red-trousered legs -- then he caught the glint of their two brass trombones.

A Village of Vagabonds

Both of these red-eared, red-trousered dispensers of harmony are perfect in deportment, and as quiet as mice.

A Village of Vagabonds

It is the endearing term of the French for the little red-trousered soldiers who form the armies of the republic, just as the English call a soldier

The Boy Scouts on the Trail George Durston

Suddenly one of the machine guns ceases -- it must have been concealed in the hedge close to the church; the gun squad serving it must have been found by the fire of our gunners; for presently there is noticeable in that quarter a foot race of red-trousered infantrymen.

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

Houses, barns and cow-sheds are filled by night with the red-trousered infantry of the French _République_.

A Village of Vagabonds

The daylight train, followed rapidly by four extra sections, had cleared Pont du Sable of all but two of the red-trousered infantry -- my trombonists!

A Village of Vagabonds