All 29 Uses
breech
in
A Feast For Crows
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- Ah, don't piss your breeches, Armen.†
p. 9.5breeches = pants
- Brienne let the bread fall from her hands and wiped the crumbs off on her breeches.†
p. 198.6 *
- Petyr welcomed his visitors in a black velvet doublet with grey sleeves that matched his woolen breeches and lent a certain darkness to his grey-green eyes.†
p. 212.5
- Gretchel and Maddy were helping Robert Arryn squirm into his breeches when Sansa stepped into his bedchamber.†
p. 213.2
- Someone had bathed him and dressed him in a pair of sky-blue breeches and a loose-fitting white tunic with puffed sleeves, belted with a silvery sash that had been a gift from Lady Lysa.†
p. 218.5
- One looked a bit like a camp follower who had once come up to Brienne to ask if she had a cunt or a cock inside her breeches.†
p. 291.4
- Lord Randyll shared the platform with Lord Mooton, a pale, soft, fleshy man in a white doublet and red breeches, his ermine cloak pinned at the shoulder by a red-gold brooch in the shape of a salmon.†
p. 294.1
- The lesson is, men who wear white breeches need to keep them tightly laced.†
p. 336.9
- She could feel him stiffening through his breeches.†
p. 358.1
- Ser Osney's ardor was wilting in his breeches.†
p. 358.4
- The bay filled his boots and soaked his breeches as Aeron poured a stream of salt water down upon his brow.†
p. 366.7
- She made her way to his side, lean and lithe in high boots of salt-stained leather, green woolen breeches, and brown quilted tunic, a sleeveless leather jerkin half-unlaced.†
p. 369.7
- She finished her business, hiked up her breeches, and returned to the road to find Nimble Dick wiping flour off his fingers.†
p. 399.8
- "A bear there was, a bear, a bear, all black and brown, and covered with hair," he sang, his voice as scratchy as a pair of woolen breeches.†
p. 409.7
- Arya was given servant's garb: a tunic of undyed wool, baggy breeches, linen smallclothes, cloth slippers for her feet.†
p. 446.1
- Her cloak, tunic, breeches, smallclothes, all of it.†
p. 455.5
- There is never enough to eat, their shoes fall to pieces from the marching, their clothes are torn and rotting, and half of them are shifting in their breeches from drinking bad water.†
p. 534.7
- Twenty serving men pissing in their breeches.†
p. 646.9
- I can only think that someone found me in the shallows, stripped me of my armor, boots, and breeches, and pushed me back out into the deeper water.†
p. 671.9
- Today he wore a plush purple cloak lined with vair, a striped white-and-lilac tunic, and the parti-colored breeches of a bravo, but he owned a silken cloak as well, and one made of burgundy velvet that was lined with cloth-of-gold.†
p. 732.5
- I said the words, he thought, but her hands were tugging at his blacks, pulling at the laces of his breeches.†
p. 748.7
- And suddenly his cock was out, jutting upward from his breeches like a fat pink mast.†
p. 749.1
- The singer's boots were supple blue calfskin, his breeches fine blue wool.†
p. 826.5
- Before long, blood was streaming down his chin from all his broken teeth, and he wet his dark blue breeches three times over, yet still the man persisted in his lies.†
p. 827.7
- Tyene's fingers the moment she drew him from his breeches.†
p. 845.6
- His boots were black, his breeches blue.†
p. 940.9
- So you could make Edmure Tully piss his breeches?†
p. 952.6
- He was a small fellow, garbed in ragged green breeches and a frayed tunic of a lighter shade of green, with brown leather patches covering the holes.†
p. 955.4
- The speaker was a slim, slight, comely youth, clad in doeskin breeches and a snug green brigandine with iron studs.†
p. 968.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(breech) rear
Most commonly used today in the phrase breech birth in reference to a baby who comes out of the birth canal butt-first rather than head-first.More-archaic senses seen in classic literature include:- breechcloth -- a form of loincloth consisting in a strip of material passed between the thighs and held up in front and behind by a belt or string
- breeches -- pants
- a cannon's breech -- the rear of a gun
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely,
breech can refer to the lower part of a pulley block.