Codpiece

//ˈkɒdˌpiːs//

Synonyms for "codpiece"

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Translations

31 translations across 14 languages.

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Danish

1 entries
  • skamkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Dutch

4 entries
  • braguette noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • braguette noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)
  • gulp noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • kulzak noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kalukukkaro noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • kalukukkaro noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

French

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  • braguette noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

German

2 entries
  • Schamkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • Schamkapsel noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

Macedonian

2 entries
  • меѓуножник noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • меѓуножник noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

Marathi

2 entries
  • कॉडपीस noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • कॉडपीस noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

Norwegian

2 entries
  • skamkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • skampose noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • skamkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • skampose noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Polish

3 entries
  • mieszek noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • saczek noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • saczek noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • braguilha noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • nakurnjak noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Slovene

2 entries
  • bavtara noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • bavtara noun (protection for the male genitals in suit of armor)

Swedish

4 entries
  • blygdkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • braguette noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • byxpung noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)
  • skamkapsel noun (part of male dress to cover genitals)

Sample sentences

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, Act III, Scene III, line 130. Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?

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Once Francis lifts her hand. She pulls back, half-resisting, and for one moment it seems he intends to lay her little fingers upon his unspeakable codpiece.

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[David] Lynch’s film is actually much better than its terrible reputation, but Sting in a codpiece and a Toto soundtrack will never match the potential greatness of [Alejandro] Jodorowsky’s unmade epic.

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On some suits were screwed large iron cod-pieces; these, according to tradition, were intended to prevent the ill consequences of those violent shocks received in charging, either in battle, or at a tournament. Same say, they were meant to contain sponges for receiving the water of knights, who in the heat of an engagement might not have any more convenient method of discharging it. But most probably, they were rather constructed in conformity to a reigning fashion in the make of the breeches of those times.

Source: wiktionary

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