Be-breeched
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Wearing breeches. not-comparable
"If a representative of the law were to ask a girl on the boulevards what she meant by sporting breeches in the streets she would answer that she had left her cycle round the corner, or was on her way to fetch it, and what could the sargot say to that? A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter in the least."
Synonyms
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More examples"If a representative of the law were to ask a girl on the boulevards what she meant by sporting breeches in the streets she would answer that she had left her cycle round the corner, or was on her way to fetch it, and what could the sargot say to that? A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter in the least."
Etymology
From be- + breech + -ed.
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