unbreechedadj.
Not dressed in breeches.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 157 Me thoughts I did requoyle Twentie three yeeres, and saw my selfe vn-breech'd, In my greene Veluet Coat.
1800 W. Wordsworth in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads II. 93 Little Dan is unbreech'd, he is three birth-days old.
c1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. vi. 112 All at once, the devil of their fathers entered into the unbreeched fanatics.
1879 E. Dowden Southey i. 5 Southey, an unbreeched boy of three years, was borne away one morning..to be handed over to the tender mercies of a school-mistress.
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