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noun (used with a plural verb)
Idiom1.
Also called knee breeches. knee-length trousers, often having ornamental buckles or elaborate decoration at or near the bottoms, commonly worn by men and boys in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.
3.
Informal. trousers.
4.
too big for one's breeches, asserting oneself beyond one's authority or ability.
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Breeches
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Example Sentences
- Hope is not a fellow to be bound by any literary traditions or a set of breeches for which he is too big.
- Sad to say, that manner-born rule is now more honored in the breeches than the observance.
- It is, however, a pity that he saw fit to wear white satin breeches on all occasions.
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noun
1.
the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
2.
the hinder or lower part of anything.
3.
Ordnance. the rear part of the bore of a gun, especially the opening and associated mechanism that permits insertion of a projectile.
4.
Machinery. the end of a block or pulley farthest from the supporting hook or eye.
5.
Nautical. the outside angle of a knee in the frame of a ship.
verb (used with object)
6.
Ordnance. to fit or furnish (a gun) with a breech.
7.
to clothe with breeches.
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Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History
breeches
c.1200, a double plural, from O.E. brec "breeches," which already was pl. of broc "garment for the legs and trunk," from P.Gmc. *brokiz (cf. O.N. brok, Du. broek, Dan. brog, O.H.G. bruoh, Ger. Bruch, obsolete since 18c. except in Swiss dialect), perhaps from PIE base *bhreg- (see
EXPAND break). The P.Gmc. word is a parallel form to Celt. *bracca, source (via Gaulish) of L. braca (cf. Fr. braies), and some propose that the Gmc. word group is borrowed from Gallo-Latin, others that the Celtic was from Germanic. Expanded sense of "part of the body covered by breeches, posterior" led to senses in childbirthing (1670s) and gunnery ("the part of a firearm behind the bore," 1570s). As the popular word for "trousers" in English, displaced in U.S. c.1840 by pants. The Breeches Bible (Geneva Bible of 1560) so called on account of rendition of Gen. iii.7 (already in Wyclif) "They sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues breeches."
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
breech (brēch)
n.
The lower rear portion of the human trunk; the buttocks.
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Breeches definition
(Ex. 28:42), rather linen drawers, reaching from the waist to a little above the knee, worn by the priests (Ezek. 44:17, 18).
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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