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Breeches - Breech | | Breeches - Breech: Encyclopedia II - Breeches - Breech | | The singular meanwhile survived in the metaphorical sense of the part of the body covered by breeches, i.e. posterior, buttocks; paradoxically, the alliterating expression 'bare breech' thus means without any inner or outer breeches!
This also led to the following:
a (gun) breech is the part of a firearm behind the bore (known since 1575 in gunnery).
breech birth i ...
See also:Breeches, Breeches - Etymology, Breeches - Semantics, Breeches - Breech, Breeches - Sources and References | | | Breeches, Breeches - Breech, Breeches - Etymology, Breeches - Semantics, Breeches - Sources and References, Clothing terminology, Plus-fours, The Breeches Bible, a Geneva-edited Bible of 1560, was so called on account of rendition of Gen. iii.7 (already in Wyclif) "They sewed figge leaues together, and made themselues breeches." | | |
| | | Breeches: Encyclopedia II - Breeches - Breech
Breeches - Breech
The singular meanwhile survived in the metaphorical sense of the part of the body covered by breeches, i.e. posterior, buttocks; paradoxically, the alliterating expression 'bare breech' thus means without any inner or outer breeches!
This also led to the following:
- a (gun) breech is the part of a firearm behind the bore (known since 1575 in gunnery).
- breech birth in childbirthing (since 1673)
Other related archives16th century, 18th, 19th century, Clothing terminology, Fencing, Knickers, Middle Ages, Native American, Oxford English Dictionary, Petticoat breeches, Plus-fours, Rhinegraves, Scots, Trousers, breech birth, buttocks, clothing, hose, leg, livery, loincloths, pantaloons, pants or trousers, petticoat, pronunciation, shorts, underwear, waist
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