How To Use Breeches In A Sentence
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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.
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He was dressed in a worn tricorn, a dark homespun coat, knee-length breeches, dark stocking, and heavy brogue shoes.
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She was wearing only dark green breeches, belted around her waist and fastened just above the knees by gold clasps.
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They had a habit for wearing breeches under their dresses for such little rides like these.
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It was, indeed, a tunic and breeches, in the emerald and gold of the Warriors, in immaculate condition, clean and pressed.
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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....
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And bagged in breeches, clinging round his side, —
The Age Reviewed
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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?
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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
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His beautifully sculpted body was sheathed in tan breeches and a white lined shirt, half opened at the neck.
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We can also protect against hull breeches and heat,’ Dann ripostes.
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His sweat would've soaked through her breeches, but she sat sort of side-saddle, and her legs were facing the inside of the arena.
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-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within?
Catherine: a Story
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They were dressed like pages with black breeches, a doublet and a flet hat trimmed with black velvet. —
80s movie pitch of the day
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“A glass of rosolio, a fresh horse, and a pair of breeches,” said he, “and quickly — I am behind my time, and must be off.”
Tales of a Traveller
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On festal occasions, Christmas, Easter, or his fête-day, he became a magnificent figure in brocaded coat and white-satin waistcoat and knee-breeches; he had diamond shoe - and knee-buckles, diamond buttons on his waistcoat, and golden aiguillettes looped across his breast and shoulder.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches.
Bomber
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Finally, while Tash and Marcia explored an interesting box of hats, the three boys appeared in front of them in the costumes of 19th century French counts; breeches, high-necked shirts and velvet tailcoats.
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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Fiancée
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The populace had grown so hardened to artists that gruff-voiced lesbians in corduroy breeches and young men in Grecian or medieval costume could walk the streets without attracting a glance, and along the Seine banks Notre Dame it was almost impossible to pick ones way between the sketching-stools.
Inside the Whale
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She had walked up with a Mr. Crowe, from Peterborough, a young, brisk-looking farmer, in breeches and top-boots, just out from the old country, who, naturally enough, thought he would like to roost among the woods.
Roughing It in the Bush
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Heavy bust encased in silk blouse, heavy thighs bulging in knee breeches, fat calves in lovat wool stockings.
Death of a Gossip
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a polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly refined English or American female will permit the word breeches to be pronounced in her chaste hearing.
Vanity Fair
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The servants, powdered and in short breeches as usual, served us in their customary solemnity; but they must have wondered why we preferred to sit on the gravel, with a draught of cold air on our backs, when we might have been comfortably seated in a big and airy room with a carpet under our feet.
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
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“Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”
George Washington’s First War
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Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
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Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket.
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On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for £2 5_s_. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for £1
Samuel Johnson
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The new cover showed Penelope Gates dressed in tweed hacking jacket, knee breeches, lovat stockings and brogues, standing on a heathery hillside, looking down at the village of Drim.
Death of a Scriptwriter
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He was dressed in burgundy velvet breeches, waistcoat and frock, with a silk and lace white shirt.
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The picture above shows volunteer Dutchman's breeches, blue and striped squills, and Trillium recurvatum.
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Among the items we find a green half-trimmed frock and breeches, lined with silk; a queen's blue dress suit; a half dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin; a pair of silk stocking breeches, and another pair of bloom color.
Oliver Goldsmith
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He was a tall man, with hair that was more red than brown, and he was dressed in a shirt of dowlas, leather breeches, and coarse plantation-made shoes and stockings.
Audrey
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The corpse lay facedown in the mud, his bottle green coat twisted up around his chest, mud and blood spattering his buckskin breeches, a spent pistol clutched in his cold hand.
Earl of Durkness
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It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches.
Bomber
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He was dressed simply, in black breeches and a white shirt that was open at the neck.
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His breeches were an expensive black velvet, but his shirt was a common white cotton with a neat and fashionable ruffle.
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His buckskin breeches, usually immaculate, were scraped and dusty, as were his boots.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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I remember what she looked like perfectly: every piece of fur standing out in sharp relief, brushed to a glossy sheen, her breeches green and gold.
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She much preferred her breeches or underclothing to the stiff dresses she wore at home.
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For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a velvet gowne, and at a bridal in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goes in a pounced dublet and a paire of embroidered hosen, the the Cities to weare a fries Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the
The Arte of English Poesie
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Osa and Martin Johnson dressed in riding breeches, laced boots, and pith helmets.
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In no time at all, he was dressed in form-fitting fawn-coloured breeches, a white linen shirt and a black riding coat, and ignored the black silk cravat Vincent laid out for him.
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Traditionally, older men wore breeches, a cummerbund, a striped shirt, a vest, and even a fez, a hat that was usually red.
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A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
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Luc stood facing the altar; hands in his breeches pockets, he looked up at the oriel window high above.
ON A WICKED DAWN
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He was formally attired in brown breeches and a white silk shirt accompanied by a deep blue waistcoat.
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The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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He was formally attired in brown breeches and a white silk shirt accompanied by a deep blue waistcoat.
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As his wares were textiles, it was fitting that his breeches were made of something that looked expensive, as was his jewellery: silver filigree bracelets and armlets.
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James Boswell is the only real woman writing at the moment, and that’s just because she wants to get inside Johnson’s breeches.
The blue haze of distance
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She's a game old bird, though; dashingly dressed in sensible breeches and stout walking boots, she's off down the fairway to confront the offending husband.
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In his arms he clutched a hand made stuffed animal that matched the soft green cotton breeches he wore and clashed horribly with the crème nightshirt that hung to his knees.
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Walking over it immediately conjures up images of Greg Wise in breeches; enough to keep me smiling for the rest of the day.
The concrete jungle's really going crazy
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The footman in knee-breeches and powdered head, who had admitted us, led us without a word across the large hall, turned into a long corridor dimly-lit by tinted electric lamps, turned to the left, then to the right, then showed us into a small, comfortably-furnished room in which
The Four Faces A Mystery
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You must also send me a fine cloth jockey coat of same colour with the wastecoat & breeches, lin'd with a fine shalloon of same colour & trim'd plain, onely a button with same sort of that with the wastecoat, but propor - tionably bigger.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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He was dressed in tan breeches with black boots to the knee.
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She designed her costume to look like his in every way; except, in addition to her black leather breeches and boots, she wore a black velvet overskirt that parted up the center to reveal her shapely legs.
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Lord, but he was handsome in his profusion of blues—the dark blue coat of superfine, breeches of light blue silk, and his beaver hat dyed blue.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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The vest was cut from a damask brocade and the breeches from bengaline, the latter which was dyed to match the vest fabric.
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Henceforth Bentham always wore his green coat with scarlet lapels, scarlet waistcoat with gold lace, and white breeches.
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He persisted in dressing, as in his youth, in black silk stockings, shoes with gold buckles, breeches of black poult-de-soie, and a black coat, adorned with the red rosette.
Ursula
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Travelers now arrive from all quarters, in cabriolets, in calashers, in the shabby "vettura," and in the elegant private carriage drawn by post-horses, and driven by postillions in the tightest possible deer-skin breeches, the smallest red coats, and the hugest jack-boots.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)
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Santolina is clipped into clouds and punctuation is provided by six foot tall teasels, milk thistles, huge artichokes and great clumps of bear's breeches.
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THE image of a red-faced judge caught in scandalous circumstances in full wig and breeches is the stuff of music hall comedy.
The Sun
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An 'now, dey tell me, Silvy she got him down to shirt-sleeves -- splittin' rails, wid his breeches gallused up wid twine, while she sets in de cabin do 'wid a pink caliker Mother Hubbard wrapper on fannin' 'erse'f.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
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And, which is more, he would now and then make Alexander the Great mad, so enormously would he abuse him when he had not well patched his breeches; for he used to pay his skin with sound bastinadoes.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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That's why they all look so good in frock coats and riding breeches.
Times, Sunday Times
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He ran unto the river Liffey, peeled off his breeches and jumped in, humecting thus his hairy skin.
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He was dressed in boots, breeches and grey uniform shirt.
Bomber
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Although returning aristocrats tended to favor powdered hair and tight-fitting knee breeches in the old style, most middle-class men wore trousers or pantaloons and kept their hair in a natural style, whether tousled or à la Titus.
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The breeches and jackets are being run up in a house in Cheltenham.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fashion of the time required men to wear at a ball white kerseymere breeches and silk stockings.
Domestic Peace
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I found a pair of plain breeches and a linen shirt in a chest of drawers, along with the necessary undergarments.
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He was formally attired in a silk jacket of dark purple damask, black velvet breeches, and an old-fashioned full-bottomed wig.
The Thief Taker
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His breeches were made of white shiny silk and so was his waistcoat.
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Cate was perched high in a tree, clad in a loose men's shirt and riding breeches.
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He was stocky and dressed handsomely in his breeches and blouse.
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It represents a bagpiper wearing a short doublet, full, knee-length breeches with a prominent codpiece, shoes with narrow rounded toes, and a hemispherical, skullcap-like hat with a very narrow brim.
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Here is the mail shirt and coif you asked for, and two pair of heavy breeches as well.
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He was dressed in a dark-green dress coat, knee breeches of the color of cuisse de nymphe effrayee, as he called it, shoes, and silk stockings.
War and Peace
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The girl's eyes lighted at the promise, and she relaxed a little as Tarma donned her closefitting breeches, shirt, and wrapped Shin'a'in jacket, covering the terrible scars.
The Oathbound
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He went in his court dress, consisting of a richly embroidered brown silk-velvet coat and short breeches, white satin vest with fancy colored embroidery, white silk stockings and pumps, wig, bagwig, cocked hat, and dress sword.
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What made it worse, my eye was out, and Cutts 'luck was dead in - he brought off middle-pocket jennies that Joe Bennet wouldn't have looked at, missed easy hazards and had his ball roll all round the table for a cannon, and when he tried long pots as often as not he got a pair of breeches.
The Sky Writer
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For who would not thinke it a ridiculous thing to see a Lady in her milke-house with a veluet gowne, and at a bridall in her cassock of mockado: a Gentleman of the Countrey among the bushes and briers, goe in a pounced dublet and a paire of embrodered hosen, in the Citie to weare a frise Ierkin and a paire of leather breeches? yet some such phantasticals haue I knowen, and one a certaine knight, of all other the most vaine, who commonly would come to the Sessions, and other ordinarie meetings and Commissions in the Countrey, so bedect with buttons and aglets of gold and such costly embroderies, as the poore plaine men of the Countrey called him (for his gaynesse) the golden knight.
The Arte of English Poesie
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_Tin_, or rather _Thin_, Breeches; whence they infer that the original bearer of it was a poor but merry rogue, whose galligaskins were none of the soundest, and who, peradventure, may have been the author of that truly philosophical stanza:
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
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She had braided her hair, and dressed in breeches and tunic, her riding gloves tucked into her belt.
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He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot.
The Alhambra
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Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches.
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They wore big felt hats, their brims curled upwards, embroidered bolero jackets and cream colored chamois breeches.
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Paint and tattoos adorned bodies sometimes naked, oftener wrapped in a dyed woolen kilt-a sort of primitive himation-or attired in breeches and perhaps a tunic of gaudy hues.
The Boat of a Million Years
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His first Adventure story was called "Khlit," after its 17th-century protagonist, a saber-wielding Cossack who wore an astrakhan hat and bright red breeches.
Shepherding a Lamb's Lost Legacy
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Melvin found himself glad he had not allowed Grover to dress him up in all his formal frippery, opting instead for riding breeches and a plain lawn shirt.
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He tossed me a laced white shirt and tan breeches.
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A jenny is a difficult in-off shot to the middle pocket, usually with the object ball close to the side-cushion; a pair of breeches is a simultaneous in-off and pot red in the top pockets. (p. 19)
The Sky Writer
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An old blanket-coat, or wrap-rascal, once white, but now of the same muddy brown hue that stained his visage -- and once also of sufficient length to defend his legs, though the skirts had long since been transferred to the cuffs and elbows, where they appeared in huge patches -- covered the upper part of his body; while the lower boasted a pair of buckskin breeches and leather wrappers, somewhat its junior in age, but its rival in mud and maculation.
Nick of the Woods
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No one but Michael Jackson wears knee breeches and gold braid anymore.
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Had on and took with him, a green broadcloth coat, almost new, a new striped jacket, with sleeves in the fashion of a sailor's, a striped crossbarred printed-cotton vest of an olive colour, buckskin breeches, and striped silk and cotton hose; BUT AS HE IS KNOWN TO HAVE
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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It's a grand pageant set in elaborate 17th century costumes of wigs, breeches, tights and ruffs.
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As I wish to describe these persons as accurately as possible, I may add, he wore a dark-coloured coat, corduroy breeches, and spatterdashes.
Redgauntlet
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She chose a pair of dark breeches, and linen shirt and then she added a dark green quilted jacket over it, quickly and efficiently trying the straps together.
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I had on a pair of old breeches that had been sained in and dried so often they was about half rotten.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)
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He was dripping wet and clad merely in his shirt and breeches.
Man of Honour
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He stepped from behind the screen, dressed in light, silky green robes and soft doeskin breeches.
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He was still a little mad she had worn breeches under her dress.
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He then took four French ells of a coarse brown russet cloth, and therein apparelling himself, as with a long, plain-seamed, and single-stitched gown, left off the wearing of his breeches, and tied a pair of spectacles to his cap.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The burly burgher, in round-crowned flaunderish hat with brim of vast circumference, in portly gaberdine and bulbous multiplicity of breeches, sat on his "stoep" and smoked his pipe in lordly silence; nor did it ever enter his brain that the active, restless Yankee, whom he saw through his half-shut eyes worrying about in dog day heat, ever intent on the main chance, was one day to usurp control over these goodly Dutch domains.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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He sat in his closefitting breeches on the arm of the seat, leaning against the back, and laughed.
Resurrection
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She hurriedly dressed into breeches and a loose fitting shirt.
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Soldiers wore a knee breeches called a culotte, it extended from the waist to just below the knee.
Archive 2008-01-06
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He was hatless; his Crimean shirt was torn into ribbons; his moleskin breeches were covered with blood and dirt; the strap belt, with its sheath-knife and various pouches, was gone, and this, judging from the state of his legs and feet, had been forcibly removed.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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He was always seen in a maroon-colored coat with gilt buttons, half-tight breeches of poult-de-soie with gold buckles, a white waistcoat without embroidery, and a tight cravat showing no shirt-collar, -- a last vestige of the old French costume which he did not renounce, perhaps, because it enabled him to show a neck like that of the sleekest abbe.
An Old Maid
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He was dressed for riding, with buff coat and buckskin breeches, and shining top boots.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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For hunting and winter use I like what are called "continuations" fixed to breeches, as these gaiter-like pieces of cloth cover the leg to a certain distance below the swell of the calf, and keep it warm, besides preventing the knee of the breeches from working round, which men obviate by using garter-straps.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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He was dressed in black breeches, a white loose shirt and cravat, and a long black jacket.
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I washed and dressed in brown breeches and a black coat, not wanting to be encumbered by my heavy cloak.
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Many of our loveliest spring wildflowers - trillium, wild ginger, Dutchman's breeches, and hepatica among them - simply can't compete.
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a seam in a pair of men's breeches on that occasion and I thought it was fine when I could sit in my low chair and "backstitch" seams in a pair of breeches for Uncle Dave who was our faithful colored family fire-maker.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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He persisted in dressing, as in his youth, in black silk stockings, shoes with gold buckles, breeches of black poult-de-soie, and a black coat, adorned with the red rosette.
Ursula
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His buckskin breeches, usually immaculate, were scraped and dusty, as were his boots.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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His throwback wool caps, melton coats and calf-length breeches channel that gentlemanly vibe.
The Gentleman Adventurer
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These ranged from startlingly androgynous, man-tailored jackets and breeches to mile-high pouf coiffures decorated with intricate landscapes and military battle-scenes, and from sweeping, jewel-encrusted gowns with which she upstaged her husband at public appearances to risqué peasant-girl shifts that she sported at her private country retreat.
Caroline Weber: Let Them Eat Lace: Marie Antoinette's Fierce and Fearless Fashion
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The men wear broad-brimmed hats, blick jackets, fuU-glated breeches of the facme colour, bofe at the knee, and tied round the waift.
The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the
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They wore big felt hats, their brims curled upwards, embroidered bolero jackets and cream colored chamois breeches.
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[5] Perhaps Breeches will one day be as old fashioned as doublet and jerkin, as in another case though the song says 'With good old leathern bottle, and ale that looks so brown' [6] and yet I doubt that in another fifty years a leather bottle will not be found but in the song.
Letter 94
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She was teaching a Highland dance to a graceful cavalier in white silk breeches, flowered satin waistcoat, and most choicely powdered periwig, fresh from the friseur.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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What huge fellows they were! almost as huge as the hogs for which they higgled; the generality of them dressed in brown sporting coats, drab breeches, yellow-topped boots, splashed all over with mud, and with low-crowned broad-brimmed hats.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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She would run to the forest, leave the dress and, wearing breeches and shirt, go back to the castle.
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She imagined silent antechambers, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets, with two tall footmen in knee-breeches sleeping in large arm-chairs, overcome by the heavy warmth of the stove.
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The torn and dirty breeches, sackcloth shirt, and tangled hair did not exactly jibe with the mental image she had formed of the prim and sharply dressed servant's master.
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She was wearing orange and red breeches, tied just below the knees.
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The riders will be dressed in their Army Dress Blue uniform with riding breeches, boots and their silver spurs.
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He was dripping wet and clad merely in his shirt and breeches.
Man of Honour
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She removed her nightgown and donned a pair of black doeskin breeches.
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The basic forms of jacket, vest, and breeches developed slowly.
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Kunst says one of his favorite bulbs is Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), which was introduced to him by his first-grade teacher.
Plant native bulbs now for thriving Midwest gardens
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Round the engine and at the starting-place of the trolleys was a busy crowd: lean and bronzed Canadians; women in leather breeches and coats, busily measuring and marking; a team of horses showing silvery white against the purple of the hill; and everywhere the German prisoner lads, mostly quite young and of short stature.
Harvest
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All that he could see of the other was the back of a figure of more than usual height, in seaman's breeches and short coat, and a sailor's peaked cap snugly set on thick black hair.
Spice and the Devil's Cave
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He was dressed in boots, breeches and grey uniform shirt.
Bomber
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His breeches and her chemise were the only barriers, the only protection, but it was enough.
Much Ado About Marriage
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The girl facing him was dressed in muddy breeches and a soft grey-green shirt.
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Now I do look in the dictionary, and I find, for the word culottes -- breeches. '
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Abigail wore a square-necked gown of white challis; John appeared in a dark blue coat, contrasting light breeches and white stockings, a gold-embroidered satin waistcoat his mother had made for the occasion, and buckle shoes.
History of American Women
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These costumes include tricornered hats, silk jackets, and riding breeches.
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She stood up and began shucking her breeches, still talking.
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She was ready to flirt with anything in breeches - and more than flirt, I suspected, but there were horny captains I was far leerier of than the Don.
Flashman's Lady
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My wardrobe consisted at this time of my cut boots, 2 foot wrappers, a very thin cotton vest, battledress jacket, French cavalry breeches, Yugoslav overcoat and French cap.
Stan Prout
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To making a half-dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin 12 12 0 To a pair of silk stocking breeches 2 5 0 To a pair of bloom-coloured ditto 1 4 6
Life Of Johnson
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Knee breeches or culottes were the de rigueur apparel for 18th century gentlemen.
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I looked longingly at my breeches, but picked up the next best thing, one of the long kilted skirts I used for riding.
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They wore dark blue breeches and spurred riding boots.
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The best dress livery is a frock coat, single-breasted, of kersey, the color of your livery; white buckskin riding breeches, top boots, top hat, white plastron, standing collar, and brown driving gloves.
The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men
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The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
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On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for L2 5_s. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for L1 4_s. 6_d.
Samuel Johnson
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That's why they all look so good in frock coats and riding breeches.
Times, Sunday Times
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He'd traded his breeches and tunic for finely tooled black leather - the working garb of an Assassin.
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A trip to a theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
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Thereafter I was issued with a new puggaree, half-boots and pyjamy breeches, a new and very smart silver-grey uniform coat, a regulation sabre, a belt and bandolier, and a tangle of saddlery which was old and stiff enough to have been used at Waterloo (and probably had), and informed by a betel-chewing havildar that if I didn't have it reduced to gleaming suppleness by next morning, I had best look out.
Fiancée
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I hesitated a little when I realized that the clothes he had brought for me were my own, but of the kind one wore for hunting, even down to the knee-high leather boots, tweed breeches and a three-eared cap-what they call a deerstalker in England-which I fastened under my chin.
The Dreamthief's Daughter
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This is a world of lace, lapdogs, knee-breeches trimmed with silk ribbons, rich textures, glowing colour and shadows pregnant with meaning.
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I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him — an atrior cura at his tail — and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous,
Catherine: a story
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Will you not give one leave to pull down his points? what, an a should his breeches beray?
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
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He is wearing a short-sleeved tunic and breeches, his coiffure dressed as a long, interlaced pigtail falling to the horse's rump, with white painted eyes, and a sheathed broadsword at the left hip.
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The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes.
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He appears as an eerie mannequin: although elegantly clad in a hunting coat and breeches, he is headless as if he has just been put through a guillotine.
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Come to visit the wounded, he was dressed for the occasion in plum velvet breeches with stockings to match, immaculate linen, and-to show solidarity with the troops, no doubt-a coat and waistcoat in Cameron tartan, with a subsidiary plaid looped over one shoulder through a cairngorm brooch.
Dragonfly in Amber
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I have obviated these inconveniences and have ridden in comfort by wearing boots made two inches shorter than the regulation height, and by wearing breeches with "continuations," no stockings are exposed to view, even when one gets a fall.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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“Ay, and get the credit of having done him — as may be the case with, yourself, friend — for he had some two or three hoggs about him” — “You know you took the last rap from his breeches-pocket not an hour ago,” expostulated the poor convalescent — “But help me to take the body out of the bed, and I will not tell the jigger-dubber that you have been beforehand with him.”
The Surgeon's Daughter
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It was all very well, these arrogant young men complaining about stitching and the cut of the breeches.
Bomber
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It competes with native wildflowers that also flower in the spring, like spring beauty, wild ginger, bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, hepatica, toothworts, and trilliums, stealing light, moisture, nutrients, soil and space.
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When she was made monitor,(Sentencedict) she soon got too big for her breeches.
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The men wore loose tunics and breeches, both in lovely colours, and wide tasselled sashes and embroidered vests.
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He wore a plain, cambric shirt and tan breeches that tucked into shiny, black boots.
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He was dressed in black breeches and a royal color shirt with a black cloak around him.
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None of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, cornuted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Monsieur Guillaume wore loose black velvet breeches, pepper-and-salt stockings, and square toed shoes with silver buckles.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
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William Terrett, ‘a leather breeches maker and glover from London (late New York),’ bought the house from Newman in 1782, and his family lived there until 1822, when they sold it to Nathan Smith.
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I wiggled my fingers at him, which I am sure looked absolutely ridiculous coming from a woman wearing breeches, boots, a shirt, hair braided back, and a three-cornered hat.
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He was born in a "sponging house," his father being one of the bailiffs of the Marshalsea Court, and no more genteel or refined than his class, was apprenticed to a leather breeches maker at the age of thirteen.
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The forage cap became the service cap, and the blouse became the pocketed service coat, worn with pegged breeches, leggings, and russet footwear.
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Bishop's Cap, Dutchman's breeches, and showy orchis.
Pros and Cons of Wildflower Collection
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Thus, a miller in apron and shirtsleeves would not be confused with a magistrate in frock coat, knee breeches, and silk stockings.
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She'd stripped away almost all her Rim armour, down to the breastplate and chamois breeches.
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He stepped from behind the screen, dressed in light, silky green robes and soft doeskin breeches.
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I slipped into his shirt and cavalry breeches, drew on the soft boots, donned his hairy poshteen, * (* Sheepskin coat.) stuck the Khyber cleaver in my sash, and was winding the puggaree round my head and wishing I had a revolver as well, when Ilderim says thoughtfully:
Fiancée
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Down the gang-plank a strange figure sauntered, clad in buckskin breeches suspended by one strap over a flannel shirt open at the throat; high-topped boots confined the breeches at the knee; a battered hat was pushed back from a rubicand face, and about his waist a belt bristled with pistols and bowie knives.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest
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According to Davenant, in 1639 Suckling spent the colossal sum of £12,000 on equipping "100 very handsome proper young men, whom he clad in white doublets and scarlett breeches, and scarlet coates, hatts, and . . . feathers" to lend military support to the king's ill-fated advance against the first Scottish rebellion, one episode in the long period of conflict.
Pens at the Ready
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I glanced down, noted I was dressed in cotton breeches and a silk shirt along with my corset and drawers, and sprung out from between the silk sheets.
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We left them on a sort of platform which had been built for them upon the pedestal of the famous knee-breeches-and-cocked-hat statue of the First Napoleon, which was replaced by the Roman-togaed one upon the Column Venôdme.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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When he was figuring at Boswell's dinner in Old Bond Street in the "ratteen suit lined with satin, and bloom-coloured silk breeches," the clothes belonged to his tailor, and remained unpaid till his death.
Thrift
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He was wearing dark riding breeches, which were either a very dark navy blue, or black.
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A magnanimous gesture from the founders of the Open Software Foundation is needed now to heal any lingering breeches in the industry.
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Wearing his Virginia militia uniform—red coat with white lace cuffs, red vest and breeches, black boots, a black tricorn—on April 2 Washington climbed atop a tall horse and rode out at the head of a corps of men wearing cloth coats, breeches, and hunting shirts.
George Washington’s First War
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A trip to a Leeds theatrical costumier's secured the fancy dress, complete with buckled shoes, breeches and elaborate cuffs and ruff.
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His one-time shirt and breeches were now littered with rips and tears, and his body sorely needed a bath.
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He was dressed in black breeches, a white loose shirt and cravat, and a long black jacket.
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One with a shirt of coarsest dowlas, and a filthy rag tying up a broken head, yet wore velvet breeches, and wiped the sweat from his face with a wrought handkerchief; the other topped a suit of shreds and patches with a fine bushy ruff, and swung from one ragged shoulder a cloak of grogram lined with taffeta.
To Have and to Hold
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Among them are Dutchman's breeches, spring-beauty, and various species of toothwort, trillium, and violet.
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This triggers the appearance of a number of wildflowers: trillium, phlox, trout lily, Dutchman's breeches, violets, wild strawberries and many more.
