breeches

see definition of breeches

as inpants
as inrump
as inseat
as introusers
as inbehind
as inbottom
as inpedal pushers
as inrear end
as inhose
as intush
as inclothe

Synonyms for breeches

noun clothing for legs, lower half of body

pants

noun. clothing for legs, lower half of body

pedal pushers

noun. pants that end just below the knee

Word Origin & History

c.1200, a double plural, from Old English brec "breeches," which already was plural of broc "garment for the legs and trunk," from Proto-Germanic *brokiz (cf. Old Norse brok, Dutch broek, Danish brog, Old High German bruoh, German Bruch, obsolete since 18c. except in Swiss dialect), perhaps from PIE root *bhreg- (see break (v.)). The Proto-Germanic word is a parallel form to Celtic *bracca, source (via Gaulish) of Latin braca (cf. French braies), and some propose that the Germanic word group is borrowed from Gallo-Latin, others that the Celtic was from Germanic.

Expanded sense of "part of the body covered by breeches, posterior" led to senses in childbirthing (1670s) and gunnery ("the part of a firearm behind the bore," 1570s). As the popular word for "trousers" in English, displaced in U.S. c.1840 by pants. The Breeches Bible (Geneva Bible of 1560) so called on account of rendition of Gen. iii:7 (already in Wyclif) "They sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues breeches."

Example Sentences for breeches

I'll get a pair of ridin' breeches an' boots for you by tomorrow.

Pierre, utterly bewildered, could find neither his breeches nor his cassock.

The man hath a straight sword within he leg of his breeches.

Then came the ominous clicking of the breeches as cartridges were thrust home.

It is an excrescence, not an essential garment like the shirt and breeches.

His lordship threw off his dressing-gown and stood forth in shirt and breeches.

Femoralia magistri—the breeches of the master, or the masters breeches.

She turned to Rotherby, who stood there in shirt and breeches and shoeless, as he had fought.

I grabbed for Jud, and my fingers caught the knee of his breeches.

Eric had worn his breeches a long while before he put them on for the first time.

breeches

Synonyms for breeches

More words related to breeches

hose

pants

pedal pushers

trousers