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• External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.From the entry version
• You look cute in breeches, too, but I want Drew to see you in this outfit.2012, Jessica Burkhart, Popular, Aladdin M!X, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry amaze
• I'm not wearing breeches beneath my habit, though without a doubt they'd be warmer than my stockings.1999, Mercedes Lackey, editor, Flights of Fantasy (DAW Book Collectors; no. 1141), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry kirtle
• Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 323. From the entry vair
• Survivors then came ashore in either the lifecar or the breeches buoy.1991, Mariners Weather Log. From the entry lifecar
• He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 41. From the entry lisle
• I bought myself strong boots, a pair of breeches, a jerkin, and a couple of shirts.1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree. From the entry jerkin
• "Canions" seem to be always associated with wide breeches of the "trunk-hose" class—sc.1918, F. M. Kelly, “What are 'canions'?”, in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, page 106. From the entry canions
• Bilateral footling, unilateral footling, and breech were delivered podalically.2008, Caroline Peterson • Lorena Madrigal • Wendy Nembhard • Nancy Romero-Daza • David Himmelgreen • Getchew Dagne, Psycho-Socio-Cultural…. From the entry podalically
• We have to open her womb and take the baby out, because it is in the breech position.”2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 282. From the entry caesarian
• White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings.2006, Karen Harper, The Last Boleyn. From the entry tucking
• Breech presentation is common, and a cesarean section may be necessary if there is severe fetal abdominocranial disproportion.2004, Michael Entezami et al., Ultrasound Diagnosis of Fetal Anomalies, Thieme, →ISBN, page 250. From the entry abdominocranial
• The breech is opened by hand and the auto-loader primed, after which the gun-layer aims and stamps on the firing pedal.1998, Ian V. Hogg, Allied Artillery of World War Two, page 111. From the entry gun-layer
• His whiskey-laced breath told Misty that he’d been drinking, and his food-stained longjohn top and filthy breeches repulsed her.1995, Sonya Birmingham, Frost Flower, New York, N.Y.: Leisure Books, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry longjohn
• In spite of the early hour, the Marquis of Chatham was finely garbed in black smallcoat and breeches of grey superfine.1987, Cate Brandt, Silken Chains, →ISBN, page 122. From the entry smallcoat
• She whimpered and whined about it till, in self-defence, I rose up and teened the candle and got into my breeches.1924, Eden Phillpotts, Redcliff, page 244. From the entry teen
• But now there's only old Manning, and young William, and a new-fashioned woman gardener in breeches and such-like.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From the entry breeches
• Moreover, she can wear breeches for riding, a skirtless dress for swimming, and even (if she be bold enough) a divided skirt for dancing.1914, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, What Women Want: An Interpretation of the Feminist Movement. From the entry skirtless
• He insensibly began to alter his appearance; his cravat seemed quilled into a ruff, and his breeches swelled out into a farlingale.1909, Henry C. Shelley, Inns and Taverns of Old London, L.C. Page and Company. From the entry quilled
• Luckily, the king was being portrayed in “Queenist” caricatures as a haughty and lustful fop bursting out of waistcoats and breeches with his current mistress fawning at his feet.2020, May McGoldrick, Highland Sword. From the entry Queenist
• When boys left off skirts at about six or seven to put on breeches this was an occasion of minor ceremony which marked the next stage of growing up.1996, Anne Buck, Clothes and the Child, R. Bean, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry breeching
• Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle.1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36. From the entry kneebuckle
• Being home-made, they hung baggy as a Dutchman's breeches, but when I cast off the mooring lines the breeze blew out the wrinkles and everything was fine.1950 October, MotorBoating, →ISSN, page 21. From the entry Dutchman's breeches
• The breeches formerly worn with those spiral leggings have been succeeded by full length, slack-type trousers which are loose at the knee and around the calf.1943, Jacob Armstrong Swisher, Iowa in Times of War, State Historical Society of Iowa, page 124. From the entry slack
• By this time, his rough homespun had been cast off for a suit of buff and blue, with buckskin breeches, his muddy brogans for the latest top boots.1927, Joseph Auslander, Frank Ernest Hill, Theresa West Elmendorf, The Winged Horse, page 220. From the entry homespun
• But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.1919, Cynthia Stockley, Blue Aloes. From the entry gladsomely
• The breeches-buoy is a cork life-buoy to which is attached a pair of short canvas breeches, the whole suspended from a traveller block by suitable lanyards.1911, Robert M. Ballantyne, Charles Dibdin and Alfred T. Thorson, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Life-boat and Life-saving Service. From the entry life car
• Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ.'2001, Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry circ
• Perdziola sets the scene with the arrival of an opera company in elegant “street clothes” of jackets, breeches and cloaks contrasted by Zerbinetta’s comic troupe and her saucy barmaiden appeal.1998 November 15, Abigail Foerstner, “A little breathing room: The challenge of designing costumes for opera”, in Chicago Tribune, 152nd…. From the entry barmaiden

Meaning of breech

1. noun A garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.
2. noun The buttocks or backside.
3. noun The part of a cannon or other firearm behind the chamber.

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How do you use breech in a sentence?

Breech is used as a noun, adverb and adjective. For example: “External cephalic version is a process by which a breech baby can sometimes be turned from buttocks or foot first to head first.”

What is a short sentence with breech?

“to breech a gun”

What does breech mean?

Breech means a garment whose purpose is to cover or clothe the buttocks.