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单词 a pair of breeches
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a pair of breeches
c. Now always in plural breeches /ˈbrɪtʃɪz/, or a pair of breeches (perhaps not so used before 15th cent.). Breeches are distinguished from trousers by coming only just below the knee, but dialectally (and humorously) breeches includes trousers.
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breecha1100
breeka1300
femoralc1450
hosec1460
breecha1500
overstocks1543
strossers1598
strouses1600
breeching1604
brogues1615
trousies1652
small clothes1770
knee-breeches1829
smalls1836
breekums1839
culotte1842
sine qua nons1850
terminations1863
trouserettes1875
strides1889
knee-breech1904
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8996 Heo..gripen heore cniues. & of mid here breches.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iii. 7 They soweden to gidre leeves of a fige tree, & maden hem brechis.]
a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 629 Bracce, brechys.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. iv. 41 Some make them brieches of the heares of their heades.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Gen. iii. 7 They sewed figge tree leaues together, and made themselues breeches.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 211 His breeches were made after the new cut.
1661 S. Pepys Diary 6 Apr. (1970) II. 66 To put both his legs through one of his Knees of his breeches.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 10 As yet black breeches were not.
17.. Chestnut Horse Dreamed of his boots, his spurs, his leather breeches, Of leaping five-barred gates, and crossing ditches.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 179 Their trousers being tucked up till they were strictly breeches.
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