knee breeches

knee breeches

pl.n. Pants extending to or just below the knee, traditionally tight-fitting around the waist and knees and looser throughout the length of the thighs.

breech•es

(ˈbrɪtʃ ɪz)

n. (used with a pl. v.) 1. knee-length trousers, often with buckles or decoration at the bottoms, worn by men in the 17th to early 19th centuries. 2. riding breeches. 3. Informal. trousers. Idioms: too big for one's breeches, more insolent and conceited than is warranted by one's position or abilities. [1125–75; Middle English, pl. of breech]

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knee breeches - trousers ending above the knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickersbritches - informal term for breechesbuckskins - breeches made of buckskincodpiece - (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breechesplus fours - men's baggy knickers hanging below the knees; formerly worn for sports (especially golf)trouser, pant - (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately; "he had a sharp crease in his trousers"trunk hose - puffed breeches of the 16th and 17th centuries usually worn over hoseplural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one