Noun: breeches
Sample Sentences
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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. [1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 83:]
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"In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden. [1958 October 26, “Liverpool to London in 1842”, in Railway Magazine, page 682:]
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But now there's only old Manning, and young William, and a new-fashioned woman gardener in breeches and such-like. [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles:]
Nouns inflected like breeches
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-
3. Proto-Germanic *brōks
4. Proto-West Germanic *brōk
5. Old English brōc
6. Old English brēċ
7. Middle English brek
8. Middle English breches
9. English breeches
10. From Middle English breches, brechen pl, a variant of Middle English breche, brech, brek (“breeches”), from Old English brēċ (“underpants”), the plural of brōc (“legging, buttocks”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōk, from Proto-Germanic *brōks (“crotch, legging, trousers”).
11. Akin to West Frisian broek (“leggings, over-trousers”), Dutch broek (“pair of trousers, underpants, long-johns”), obsolete German Bruch (“pair of hose, leggings, pants trousers”), Old Norse brók (“breeches”) (whence Danish brog); compare Latin brācae ( > French braies, Spanish bragas) which is immediately of Celtic origin, yet ultimately borrowed from the same Proto-Germanic source above. Compare brail. See: Middle English Nouns '
breche', Dutch Nouns '
broek', German Nouns '
Bruch', Latin Nouns '
brācae', French Nouns '
braies', Spanish Nouns '
bragas'.
Verbs referencing "breeches"
Russian Nouns
брюки, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
brok, Hungarian Nouns
bricsesz, Irish Nouns
bríste, Polish Nouns
bryczesy.