cache-sexen.
A covering for the genitals.
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1926 Spectator 13 Feb. 270 Revues the feature of which was two grandes ensembles of women naked except for the minute cache-sexe.
1930 D. H. Lawrence Nettles 19 English artists might finally learn When they painted a nude, to put a cache sexe on.
1961 P. Ustinov Loser xi. 246 She oscillated listlessly in nothing but a spangled brassière and a sequin-covered cache sexe the shape of a heart.
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