different between codpiece vs codpieced

codpiece

English

Etymology

From Middle English cod (scrotum) +? piece

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?d?pi?s/

Noun

codpiece (plural codpieces)

  1. A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
    • , Act III, Scene III, line 130.
      Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
  2. A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

Translations

See also

  • merkin

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codpieced

English

Etymology

codpiece +? -ed

Adjective

codpieced (not comparable)

  1. Wearing, or fitted with, a codpiece.

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