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    • \ ˈbrē-chəz- 

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    [Noun]  | "breech" | \ ˈbrēch \


    1: short pants covering the hips and thighs and fitting snugly at the lower edges at or just below the knee

    2: pants

    3: the hind end of the body : buttocks

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, breeches, from Old English brēc, plural of brōc leg covering; akin to Old High German bruoh breeches, Latin braca pants;

    [Noun]  | "breech*es buoy" | \ ˈbrē-chəz- \


    1: a canvas seat in the form of breeches hung from a life buoy running on a hawser and used to haul persons from one ship to another or from ship to shore especially in rescue operations

    Origin: 1878 ;

    [Noun]  | "Dutch*man's-breech*es" | \ ˌdəch-mənz-ˈbri-chəz \


    1: a spring-flowering herb (Dicentra cucullaria) of the fumitory family occurring in the eastern U.S. and having finely divided leaves and cream-white double-spurred flowers

    Origin: 1837 ;

    [Plural noun]  | "knee breeches" 


    1: breech

    Origin: 1833 ;

    [Noun]  | "breeches" 


    1: an outer garment covering each leg separately from waist to ankle;


      * e.g., " ... the mounted riders look striking in their red coats and white breeches "



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    [Noun]  | "breech" 


    1: the part of the body upon which someone sits;


      * e.g., " ... plant yourselves on your breeches on that bench and listen to what I have to say "



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    2: an outer garment covering each leg separately from waist to ankle;


      * e.g., " ... the mounted riders look striking in their red coats and white breeches "



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    [Plural noun]  | "knee breeches" 


    1: as in knickerbockers, bloomers;


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