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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), from either (or both) earlier Celtic origin or from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōkiz pl (nom.acc.), from *brōks (“trousers”). Akin to Old Norse brók (“breeches”), Danish brog, Dutch broek, German Bruch f; compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin. Compare brail.
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[edit]breeches
Noun
[edit]breeches pl (plural only, attributive breech)
- A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
- 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83:
- And how then was the Devil drest? / Oh! he was in his Sunday's best: / His jacket was red and his breeches were blue, / And there was a hole where the tail came through.
- (informal) Trousers; pantaloons.
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[edit]a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs
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