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Meanings of breeches in English
Synonyms
Examples for "knickers"
Examples for "knickers"
1
You're just going to have to hold your knickers on and see.
2
Then he took off her knickers and held them in his hand.
3
Oh no, she'd strip off her knickers soon as look at you.
4
Because it had the knickers attached to it, inside the skirt bit.
5
Is that a gently rounded tummy on that bra and knickers-clad model?
1
As it was, everybody was running after the young man in knickerbockers.
2
Even the English people who come here put on knickerbockers and bonnets.
3
His stockings were short, and did not come up to his knickerbockers.
4
His knickerbockers, in the elegance of their lines, were the delight of beholders.
5
And now to little Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell in knickerbockers and Holland jerkin.
1
This is right after work, so I'm in my britches and waistcoat.
2
Then I grabbed him by the seat of the britches and heaved.
3
My other blurry hand is jammed to the elbow inside my britches.
4
They're not really venal, that lot, just too big for their britches.
5
Bet the last button on your britches, he was that an' more.
1
It's like Law & Order with knee breeches and powdered wigs.
2
At this period knee breeches were worn almost altogether in England.
3
The thing that held us was his blue plush knee breeches.
4
His plain black coat and knee breeches were wrinkled from travel.
5
An ancient butler in knee breeches opened the door forMalachi Constant of Hollywood.
1
They are Italians here, and are at work on knee pants.
2
Instead they wore loose fitting jackets of some silky material, and loose knee pants.
3
The woman makes knee pants of grammar-schoolboy size; she receives sixteen cents a dozen pairs.
4
Over the headstone presently came the knee pants, the faded calico waist with bone buttons.
5
He'll look like a toy balloon in knee pants.
Usage of breeches in English
1
He thought of Napier, bending to thank him for finishing the breeches.
2
The voluminous breeches now acknowledge the superior graces of intimate English trousers.
3
A man in knee-breeches and silver-buckled shoes emerged from the back drawing-room.
4
I wore leathern breeches, and the blue uniform of the Russian cavalry.
5
The short breeches they wore were fastened at the knee by bands.
6
Allday too had changed into his fine blue jacket and nankeen breeches.
7
All the militia wore dark green coats with buff waistcoats and breeches.
8
He had thrown off his breeches, and was working in his drawers.
9
Out here she was free to stride around in boots and breeches.
10
The boys wear black knee-breeches, and bright-colored shirts, open at the neck.
11
There Kedzie was found in very becoming ragged breeches, pouting with starvation.
12
Little Zouaves are plentiful-redvest, blue sash, and red fez and breeches.
13
His baggy breeches had seemed always to precede him into the room.
14
He arrived wearing riding breeches, and carrying a whip under his arm.
15
He could feel the warm wetness of her femininity through his breeches.
16
He was bare-legged, and had linen breeches on tied at the knee.
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Breeches through the time
Breeches across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common