[ noun ] informal term for breeches <noun.artifact>
"No indictment was filed, but Harry Truman had me picking barbed wire out of my britches for about a decade," Harvey recalled.
The sale items include an extensive collection of 18th century letters and papers, a watch, cowhide britches and a handpainted vest Bartlett is said to have worn when he followed John Hancock in signing the Declaration.
The groom and his two attendants wore moosehide knicker-type britches with wool socks, wool vests and heavy wool-lined jackets _ and must have sweltered.