All 43 Uses
breech
in
A Dance With Dragons
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- Blood had soaked his breeches to the knee and dried into a hard brown crust.†
p. 5.2 *breeches = pants
- Afterward she rubbed sweet-smelling ointment into his calves to ease the aches, and dressed him once again in boy's clothing, a musty pair of burgundy breeches and a blue velvet doublet lined with cloth-of-gold.†
p. 28.5
- The king wore lambswool breeches and a quilted doublet, yet somehow he looked as stiff and uncomfortable as if he had been clad in plate and mail.†
p. 57.7
- The falling snow had begun to bury what remained of them, so pale against the black of ragged cloaks and breeches.†
p. 74.9
- The dwarf was so stuffed that he had to undo his belt and the topmost laces on his breeches.†
p. 83.6
- He waddled off the road, undid his breeches, and relieved himself into a tangle of thorns.†
p. 123.4
- I may well piss my breeches.†
p. 126.9
- Clothes as well: cloaks, breeches, boots, tunics, good leather gloves.†
p. 152.5
- He wiped his bloody fingers on his breeches.†
p. 177.4
- The gaoler was dead drunk in a puddle of wine, with his breeches down around his ankles.†
p. 179.1
- For half a heartbeat it eluded him, and that frightened him so badly that he tripped on the steep dungeon steps and tore his breeches open on the stone, drawing blood.†
p. 180.5
- One burrowed through his breeches into the desiccated flesh of his thigh, to emerge again from his shoulder.†
p. 194.8
- Tyrion helped him dress for the bout, in heavy breeches, padded doublet, and a dinted suit of old steel plate.†
p. 201.2
- His breeches were similarly split; the right leg was solid green, the left leg striped in red and white.†
p. 202.9
- Yollo is hiding in my breeches.†
p. 204.1
- Haldon laced up his breeches.†
p. 204.5
- His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp.†
p. 214.1
- The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath.†
p. 264.6
- The thought of what Ramsay would do to him if he crept back to camp without the garrison's surrender was almost enough to make him piss his breeches.†
p. 285.2
- The sellsword wore his mail and wolfskin cloak, soft leather gloves, dark woolen breeches.†
p. 310.5
- The tent slept ten, and all of them had been on their feet by then, wriggling into breeches and boots, sliding long coats of ringmail down onto their shoulders, buckling breastplates, tightening.†
p. 357.2
- She donned thick black breeches, a quilted tunic, and a green leather jerkin covered with overlapping plates of steel.†
p. 372.1
- Give me a crossbow and pull down your breeches, and I'll show you.†
p. 386.3
- Slipping into Summer's skin had become as easy for him as slipping on a pair of breeches once had been, before his back was broken.†
p. 493.9
- He could smell Horse's unwashed breeches, the sweet scent Satin combed into his beard, the rank sharp smell of fear, the giant's overpowering musk.†
p. 515.2
- The snow clung to their boots and breeches, and the wind rattled the pines and made their cloaks snap and swirl.†
p. 515.9
- Wine splashed across his boots and breeches, a dark red tide.†
p. 547.2
- In place of a gown, she wore men's breeches and a calf-length linen tunic, cinched at the waist with a belt of copper suns.†
p. 551.7
- And if they had been in that privy when I shot my father through the bowels, they might have laughed hard enough to shit their breeches right along with him.†
p. 577.4
- One missed his eye by half an inch, a second found his neck, a third went through his calf, boots and breeches and all.†
p. 585.7
- And we should have had her and the castle both if you prancing southron jackanapes didn't piss your satin breeches at a little snow.†
p. 615.9
- Daario found his breeches and pulled them on.†
p. 620.3
- Men were coming in from the cold, stomping their feet to knock the snow off their boots and breeches as the midday meal was served—blood sausage, leeks, and brown bread still warm from the ovens.†
p. 662.7
- Bracken retrieved his breeches from the floor and shook them out.†
p. 695.2
- "You are putting those breeches on backwards, my lord," he told Bracken.†
p. 695.4
- But as she slipped past Jaime, clutching one shoe and a pile of her clothes, she reached down and gave his cock a squeeze through his breeches.†
p. 696.2
- Jonos had finally gotten his breeches turned the right way round and was lacing them up the front.†
p. 696.4
- In the end she settled for one of Lord Ramsay's quilted doublets and a well-worn pair of breeches that flapped about her legs like a ship's sails in a storm.†
p. 748.3
- Val was clad all in white; white woolen breeches tucked into high boots of bleached white leather, white bearskin cloak pinned at the shoulder with a carved weirwood face, white tunic with bone fastenings.†
p. 770.7
- Next time we meet I'll peek beneath his breeches to be sure.†
p. 841.8
- Pull them breeches down, give us a look.†
p. 848.3
- A man in a butcher's apron pulled his cock out of his breeches, grinning.†
p. 939.3
- Then there was the Girl General, who rode about on a white horse with a red mane and commanded a hundred strapping slave soldiers that she had bred and trained herself, all of them young, lean, rippling with muscle, and naked but for breech-clouts, yellow cloaks, and long bronze shields with erotic inlays.†
p. 354.6
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.