All 18 Uses
breech
in
Outlander
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- I was quite sure I was still hallucinating when the sound of shots was followed by the appearance of five or six men dressed in red coats and knee breeches, waving muskets.†
p. 36.2 *breeches = pants
- This personage was dressed as befitted his office in the sober elegance of dark breeches and coat and grey velvet hat (removed for the nonce and tenderly sheltered from the rain beneath the tail of his coat).†
p. 124.6
- There were dozens of them, coming, going, standing talking in small groups scattered throughout the hall, and all clad in some version of the clan tartan, be it only a plaid or a tartan bonnet worn above ordinary working shirt and tattered breeches.†
p. 134.3
- A small, elderly man of neat, precise habits, he wore a coat of fine broadcloth, fine woolen hose, a linen shirt whose stock bore the merest suggestion of lace, and breeches of a fabric that was a nicely judged compromise between the rigors of travel and the status of his calling.†
p. 147.6
- His hand dropped to his breeches.†
p. 276.8
- The pressing hand left my chest to return to the swelling flies of his breeches.†
p. 278.2
- At this juncture, he arrived, clad in nothing but a pair of ragged breeches, thin chest glimmering whitely in the dim stable.†
p. 359.2
- Telling myself firmly that this was no worse than assisting at abdominal surgery, I retired to a stall to change my gown for breeches and a rough smock of sacking, and lathered my hand and arm up to the shoulder with greasy tallow soap.†
p. 359.4
- The man approaching us was stout and prosperous-looking, with a snowy stock showing at the neck of a serviceable grey serge coat, its long tails covering all but an inch or two of his breeches.†
p. 420.1
- And I stared right at his breeches and I laughed again.†
p. 458.9
- Clean and orderly, in snowy linen and grey breeches, he cut a wonderful figure.†
p. 469.3
- The loose, blubbery lips chewed and mumbled constantly, as though seeking some fragment of food, and the short, thick fingers worked nervously against the crotch of the stained breeches.†
p. 528.4
- And then when we got below-stairs and he heard the beasts bellowin' like thunder, I thought he'd dirtied his breeches.†
p. 546.9
- Never mind Sir Fletcher's breeches.†
p. 546.9
- Sir Marcus and I had padded Jamie's hips and thighs as thickly as we could with linen bandages under a pair of worn breeches and hose, dark in color to hide any telltale blood spots that might seep through.†
p. 563.9
- He unbuttoned his breeches then, and smeared the fresh blood on himself, and said it was my turn now.†
p. 584.8
- He was barefoot, but otherwise clad in a short jerkin and thin breeches, the property of one of the stable lads, to judge from the stains on them.†
p. 612.1
- He rubbed his hand on the ragged breeches.†
p. 612.3
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.