codpiece
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- noun
- /ˈkɒdˌpiːs/
- Archaic
- During the Renaissance, a codpiece was not only a practical garment but also a statement of masculinity.
- wear a codpiece
Examples
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What lucky wench gets to play with the Sheriff's codpiece?
Fiction book (1991) -
"If it please you, my lady, I will be off." So saying, he buckled on his jewel-encrusted codpiece and strode off toward the west without a backward glance.
Fiction book (1990) -
Although, by all accounts, there was a lot more room in that codpiece, than Henry wanted people to know.
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One silver coin and an empty codpiece.
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All the whilst Henry's codpiece protruded several inches from his crotch.
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The slashed green velvet barely covered the tops of his thighs, and an obscenely large codpiece covered his groin.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the 16th century, wealthy gentlemen often wore a decorative codpiece that highlighted their fashion sense.
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The costume for the theatrical production included a historic codpiece to accurately portray the men's attire of that era.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Codpiece comes from the old word cod meaning 'bag' or 'scrotum' and the word piece meaning 'a piece of cloth'. So it literally meant a cloth 'piece' that made a small pouch over the front of men's trousers, which is why a codpiece covered the crotch.