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Definition of Breechcloth
1. Noun. A garment that provides covering for the loins.
Definition of Breechcloth
1. n. A cloth worn around the breech.
Definition of Breechcloth
1. Noun. An apron-like garment held on by a belt tied around the waist to cover the loins; a loincloth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breechcloth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breechcloth
Literary usage of Breechcloth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Men: Buffalo robe, shirt to knees or longer, breechcloth, thigh- leggings ...
Men: Usually naked; robe, network cap, moccasins and breechcloth occasionally. ..."
2. Negro Culture in West Africa: A Social Study of the Negro Group of Vai by George Washington Ellis (1914)
"Afterward the girls wear an apron made of beads, and the boys a breechcloth or gown.
When the boys and girls come out of the Devil and Greegree Bushes they ..."
3. History of Arizona by Thomas Edwin Farish (1915)
"Others were clad in the simple breechcloth. All were mounted on spirited horses.
... Their warriors wear the white breechcloth, and their hair, ..."
4. Industrial and Commerrcial Geography by Joseph Russell Smith (1913)
"Cottons, indeed, nd to be relatively more important in the breechcloth stage an
in any other, comprising, for instance, one-fourth of the im- >rts of Sierra ..."
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