The boy put on his breeches and went out for a ride. 男孩穿上马裤,出去骑马了。
Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee; knickers. 灯笼裤一种在膝盖下部收拢扎紧的宽松的裤子;灯笼裤
Full breeches gathered and banded just below the knee. 灯笼裤在膝盖下部收拢扎紧的宽松裤
breeches
[ noun ] trousers ending above the knee <noun.artifact>
Breeches \Breech"es\ (br[i^]ch"[e^]z), n. pl. [OE. brech, brek, AS. br[=e]k, pl. of br[=o]c breech, breeches; akin to Icel. br[=o]k breeches, ODan. brog, D. broek, G. bruch; cf. L. bracae, braccae, which is of Celtic origin. Cf. {Brail}.] 1. A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
His jacket was red, and his breeches were blue. --Coleridge.
2. Trousers; pantaloons. [Colloq.]
{Breeches buoy}, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines.
{Breeches pipe}, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end.
{Knee breeches}, breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes.
{To wear the breeches}, to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. [Colloq.]
But the tenor easily dispatched his high-flying music while looking tall and trim in the snug breeches designed for him by the show's costumer, Giovanna Buzzi.
The justices said they will review a Texas court ruling that said such a tax neither violates equal-protection rights nor breeches the constitutionally required separation of church and state.
The resemblance grows even stronger when he dons breeches, a waistcoat and a ruffled shirt.