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breechcloths

breechcloths is the plural of breechcloth.

Meaning of breechcloth

Noun

breechcloth (plural breechcloths)

  1. An apron-like garment held on by a belt tied around the waist to cover the loins; a loincloth.
    • Shedding his gold robes so that he wore nothing but a leather breechcloth, the dark-haired youth sprang on top of the altar.2008, Christopher Paolini, “The Gates of Death”, in Brisingr, page 4

Questions about breechcloths

What is breechcloths the plural of?
Breechcloths is the plural of breechcloth.

Words near breechcloths in the dictionary

  1. breech-loaders
  2. breech-loading
  3. breechblock
  4. breechblocks
  5. breechcloth
  6. breechcloths
  7. breechclout
  8. breechclouts
  9. breeched
  10. breechen
  11. breechens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: breechcloths (page history and authors); breechcloth (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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