be-breeched
be-breeched adjective: wearing breeches.
Adjective
be-breeched (not comparable)
- Wearing breeches.
- If a representative of the law were to ask a girl on the boulevards what she meant by sporting breeches in the streets she would answer that she had left her cycle round the corner, or was on her way to fetch it, and what could the sargot say to that? A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were...1894 February 8, “The Paris Girl in Pants; She Dons Man’s Attire for Walking On the Streets Without Molestation. The Evolution of the Bicycle Skirt. Mme. Dieulafoy, Clothed As a Man, Accompanied Her...
- BE-BREECHED DAUGHTERS BARRED FROM PLACE IN CATHEDRAL1929 November 1, The Battle Creek Enquirer, and – The Evening News, Battle Creek, Mich., page 9
- Synonyms:
- breeched
Examples of be-breeched in a sentence
- A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter in the least.1894 February 8, “The Paris Girl in Pants; She Dons Man’s Attire for Walking On the Streets Without Molestation. The Evolution of the...
- I should think two-thirds rode side-saddle—and infinitely more graceful they looked than their be-breeched sister astride.1933 March 29, Lukin Johnston, “In England Today”, in Edmonton Journal, 29th year, number 216, Edmonton, Alta., page ten:
- A gallant, be-breeched gentleman, the hemispheres of his Bedford Cords flapping gloriously in rhythm with the lope of his mount, galloped by us footsloggers on Salisbury Plain.1940 December 27, Harold Baldwin, “A Plague o’ All Your Breeches”, in The Leader-Post, volume XXXII, number 295, Regina, Sask., page four:
Synonyms of be-breeched
Forms of be-breeched
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Origin of be-breeched
From be- + breech + -ed.
Words that rhyme with be-breeched
Questions about be-breeched
- What does be-breeched mean?
- Be-breeched means wearing breeches.
- How do you use be-breeched in a sentence?
- A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter in the least.
- What part of speech is be-breeched?
- Be-breeched is an adjective.
Words near be-breeched in the dictionary
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