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)
- 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?
- , Act III, Scene III, line 130.
- 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)
- Wearing, or fitted with, a codpiece.
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