breeches

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   short trousers fastened at or just below the knee, historically worn by men and now especially for riding

   The rider wore beige breeches with tall black boots.

Common collocations

• knee breeches Noun + noun

The lexicalized plural of Middle English breche or breches, from Old English brec, the plural of broc ("leg covering; garment for the loins"), from Proto-Germanic *broks. Cognates include Dutch broek and Old Norse brok. Although historically a plural of breech, modern breeches is the independent plural clothing headword; singular a breech is not used for one trouser leg.

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