well-breeched
well-breeched adjective: wealthy.
Adjective
well-breeched (comparative more well-breeched, superlative most well-breeched)
- Wealthy.
- That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.1950, Ralph Bates, The Dolphin in the Wood, page 149
- Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194
Examples of well-breeched in a sentence
- Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.1985, Eileen Jackson, The Secret Bluestocking, page 165:
- What he saw was a well-breeched man holding the reins of a thoroughbred horse, a man whose dignity did not preclude his saddling the pony of a ragged priest.2010, P. J. Keogh, In Those Blighted Fields, page 242:
Forms of well-breeched
| comparative | more well-breeched |
|---|---|
| superlative | most well-breeched |
Questions about well-breeched
- What does well-breeched mean?
- Well-breeched means wealthy.
- How do you use well-breeched in a sentence?
- Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.
- What part of speech is well-breeched?
- Well-breeched is an adjective.
Words near well-breeched in the dictionary
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