Meaning of be-breeched | Babel Free

Definitions

Wearing breeches.

not-comparable

Examples

“If a representative of the law were to ask⟳ a girl on the boulevards what she meant by sporting breeches in the streets she would answer⟳ that she had left her cycle round the corner, or was on her way to fetch⟳ it, and what could the sargot say⟳ to that? A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter⟳ in the least.”

“BE-BREECHED DAUGHTERS BARRED FROM PLACE⟳ IN CATHEDRAL”

“I should think⟳ two-thirds rode side-saddle—and infinitely more graceful they looked than their be-breeched sister astride.”

“A gallant, be-breeched gentleman, the hemispheres of his Bedford Cords flapping gloriously in rhythm with the lope of his mount⟳, galloped by us footsloggers on Salisbury Plain.”

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