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Breeched

adjective
1.
Dressed in trousers.  Synonyms: pantalooned, trousered.






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"Breeched" Quotes from Famous Books



... nettle him at last: His haunches quiver, for all his woolly coat; He'll prove a Haggard, yet. Nay—he said "husband": No Haggard I've heard tell on's been a husband: But, if your taste's for husbands, lass, you're suited, Till doomsday, as he says. He kens his mind: When barely breeched, he chose to bide with sheep; Though he might have travelled with horses: and it's sheep His heart is set on still. But, I've no turn For certainties myself: no sheep for me: Life, with a tossing mane, and clattering hoofs, The chancy life for me—not certain death, ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

... morning after the boys had reached New York that the Indian Queen went down the harbor, her canvas drawing merrily in the spanking breeze of dawn. The intervening day had been spent at the dock-side, where wide-breeched Dutch longshoremen were stoutly hustling bales and boxes of merchandise into the hold. Jeremy had watched the passers along the river front narrowly, though he could not help having a feeling that Pharaoh Daggs was gone. The fancy would not leave ...
— The Black Buccaneer • Stephen W. Meader



Words linked to "Breeched" :   clothed, clad, trousered



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