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Definition of Breechclout
1. Noun. A garment that provides covering for the loins.
Definition of Breechclout
1. Noun. (dated) breechcloth or loincloth ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Breechclout
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breechclout
Literary usage of Breechclout
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American by Theodore Roosevelt (1910)
"One as her sole clothing wore a beaded cord around her waist, and a breechclout
consisting of half a dozen long, thickly leaved, fresh sprays of a kind of ..."
2. The Centennial History of Illinois by Illinois Centennial Commission, Clarence Walworth Alvord (1917)
"The ordinary garments of the Indian men were a shirt reaching almost to the knees,
a breechclout, and leggings which came up to the thigh and were fastened ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"His father, who used to be dubbed " Tony breechclout" for short, was called "Antonio
Gonzalez"; he himself " Nicholas. " But if he were going to style ..."
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