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breeches

/brich-iz, bree-chiz/US // ˈbrɪtʃ ɪz, ˈbri tʃɪz //UK // (ˈbrɪtʃɪz, ˈbriː-) //

马裤,短裤,裤衩,裤子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : riding breeches.
    • : Informal. trousers.

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Examples

  • There were men dressed in colonial garb complete with knee-breeches and powdered wigs.

  • His clothes marked him as a man of the city, for we do not wear shooting jackets, and breeches and leather leggings in our valley.

  • With them were two civilians, both in rough shooting-jackets and breeches, one about forty-five, the other a few years his junior.

  • He still wore knee-breeches and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs, but they were not the breeches.

  • The Adventure Girls were dressed alike in brown breeches, leather boots, and khaki shirts with brown silk ties to match.

  • After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.