breeches
6
9.9
- noun
- /ˈbrichɪz/
- Archaic
- We've got the great doublets with, you know, the black and we have the Spanish style breeches, which are those like slashed balloony little like shorts.
Loading YouTube…
Watch on YouTubeThey were tight fitting breeches with a distinctive braided knot, a Vitus Cortez upon the thighs.
- They were tight fitting breeches with a distinctive braided knot, a Vitus Cortez upon the thighs.
Examples
-
As a base layer, the guards wore shirts and breeches with boots and black gaiters.
-
So what she did was she made me the breeches and the vest and the coat.
-
They were tight fitting breeches with a distinctive braided knot, a Vitus Cortez upon the thighs.
-
In the play, the actor wore elegant breeches that were styled in the fashion of the 18th century.
-
The old photograph showed a gentleman in breeches, a common outfit for men in the past.
-
During the historical reenactment, the participants donned breeches to resemble soldiers from the colonial era.
Synonyms
108
1.0
Clothes worn on the lower body with separate parts for each leg
20
8.4
Loose trousers like old work pants
9
1.0
Trousers ending above the knee that people wear in warm weather or for sports
4
7.7
Short trousers that end above the knee, often worn by boys or for sports
1
8.1
Loose knee-length trousers gathered at the knee and worn for sport or old-fashioned dress
1
9.9
Short loose trousers gathered at the knee, often worn by boys or for sports
1
9.9
Short trousers that reach to the knee and are often worn by boys
1
9.9
A type of short loose pants that gather at the knee
1
9.9
Short trousers fastened just below the knee, worn by men in the 1600s and 1700s
1
8.0
Trousers wide at the hips and tight below the knee worn for riding horses
1
9.9
Loose trousers worn under tunics by men in medieval Europe
1
9.9
Trousers wide at the hips and tight from the knee to the ankle for horse riding
Knee-length trousers that men wore with formal clothes in the 17th and 18th centuries
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
1
9.9
Short trousers fastened just below the knee, worn by men in the 1600s and 1700s
1
9.9
A delicate spring wildflower with white flowers that look like little pants
- Archaic
1
9.9
A ring buoy with short trousers used to move people from a ship to shore
1
9.9
A plant that lives for many years with large lobed leaves and tall spikes of white flowers with purple lines
1
9.9
Trousers wide at the hips and tight from the knee to the ankle for horse riding
How Revealing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Breeches comes from the Old English brēc, which meant 'trousers', and is related to breech (the lower part of the body) and the everyday word britches. So breeches means those short trousers for the lower body that often stop just above the knee.