It's not easy to put breeches on a cat.
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Breeches
//ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz//
Synonyms for "breeches" (10 found)
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Noun(3 words)
Related words (5)
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14 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 27 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- kuitbeenbroek noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- kuitbroek noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βράκαι noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Bulgarian
1 entries- брич noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Catalan
1 entries- calçons noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 五分褲 /五分裤 noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- 半長褲 /半长裤 noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- 馬褲 /马裤 noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Dutch
1 entries- kniebroek noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Finnish
1 entries- polvihousut noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
French
2 entries- culotte noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- haut-de-chausses noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Galician
3 entries- bragas noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- calzón noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- calzóns noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Georgian
1 entries- ბრიჯი noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
German
2 entries- Breeches noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- Kniehose noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Greek
1 entries- βράκα noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Italian
1 entries- brache noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Japanese
2 entries- ブリーチズ noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- 半ズボン noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- бриджи noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- ооз.шым noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Lithuanian
1 entries- bridžiai noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Norwegian
1 entries- knebukser noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دیزلك noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Persian
2 entries- اندرورد noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- تنبان noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Polish
1 entries- bryczesy noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Portuguese
1 entries- calções noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Russian
2 entries- бри́джи noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- бриджи noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kilòte noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- кило̀те noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Sicilian
2 entries- causi noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- vrachi noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Spanish
1 entries- calzones noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Swedish
1 entries- knäbyxor noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бриджі noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
- брічи noun (a garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Thus buoyed up, he floated on the waves like a merman, or like an angler's dobber, until he landed safely on a rock, where he was found the next morning busily drying his many breeches in the sunshine.
Source: tatoeba (11605881)
It was a boy dressed in ragged velveteen breeches, and thin discoloured shirt.
Source: tatoeba (12358587)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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