[
UK
/bɹˈiːtʃɪz/
]
[ US /ˈbɹitʃɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹitʃɪz/ ]
NOUN
- (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee
How To Use breeches In A Sentence
- Stripping off her leather breeches and boots, and her tunic, Isabella slid into the sudsy, herbal scented water of the tub, submersing her body up to her chin.
- He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
- She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps.
- They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these.
- It was, indeed, a tunic and breeches, in the emerald and gold of the Warriors, in immaculate condition, clean and pressed.
- My favourite episode consisted of Bill Odie dressed in breeches and a flat cap wielding a black pudding ... well just hitting people with the black pudding in a demonstration of the ancient martial art of 'ecky thumph'. If You Only Knew the Power of the Dumb Side....
- And bagged in breeches, clinging round his side, — The Age Reviewed
- Not only have the top-boots and breeches vanished from the costume of innkeepers, but also the long, parti-coloured waistcoat, and the birds'-eye fogle round their necks. Can You Forgive Her?
- I took off the brown mantle and my guild cloak, put my boots on a stool near the brazier, and stood beside him to dry my breeches and hose, asking if all those who came this way on monomachy stopped to refresh themselves with him. The Shadow of the Torturer
- His beautifully sculpted body was sheathed in tan breeches and a white lined shirt, half opened at the neck.