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smallclothes
English
Etymology
small +? clothes
Noun
smallclothes pl (plural only)
- Knee-length breeches, worn especially in the 18th century.
- 1841, Leigh Hunt, Essays:
- Even fashions, otherwise convenient, as the trousers that have so long taken place of smallclothes, often perhaps owe their continuance to some general defect . . .
- 1841, Leigh Hunt, Essays:
- (Britain, archaic) Underwear and other small items of clothing.
- 2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: A Song of Fire and Ice, ?ISBN, p. 701 (Google preview):
- One hand slid up her thigh and underneath her smallclothes.
- 2007 April 10, Tobias Hill, "School Stories," The Guardian (UK) (retrieved 17 May 2014):
- Are red socks a secret handshake, a mark of Etonhood, of an allegiance to the place both claimed and disclaimed? And having seen one pair I'm noticing them all over the place, a conspiracy of smallclothes.
- 2000, George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords: A Song of Fire and Ice, ?ISBN, p. 701 (Google preview):
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breeches
English
Alternative forms
- britches (Appalachia, Southern US)
Etymology
From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English br?? (“breeches”), from Proto-Germanic *br?kiz pl (nom.acc.), from Proto-Germanic *br?ks (“trousers”); akin to Old Norse brók (“breeches”), Danish brog, Dutch broek, German Bruch f; compare Latin br?cae ( > French braies) which is immediately of Celtic origin, and likely ultimately from the same Germanic origin above. Compare brail.
Pronunciation
- (plural of breech):
- IPA(key): /?b?i?t??z/
- IPA(key): /?b?i?t??z/
- (smallclothes; trousers):
- IPA(key): /?b??t??z/ (traditional)
- IPA(key): /?b?i?t??z/ (more recent spelling pronunciation)
- IPA(key): /?b??t??z/ (traditional)
- Rhymes: -?t??z, -i?t??z
Noun
breeches
- plural of breech
Noun
breeches pl (plural only)
- A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
- (informal) Trousers; pantaloons.
- Synonyms: trousers, pants
Derived terms
- breeches buoy
- breeches pipe: a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end
- knee-breeches
- open-kneed breeches
- wear the breeches: see wear the pants, wear the trousers
- too big for one's britches
Translations
See also
- pantaloons
- britches
- jodhpurs
Further reading
- breeches on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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