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Definition of Breechclouts
1. breechclout [n] - See also: breechclout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breechclouts
Literary usage of Breechclouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... and those who affect to go clothed do not acquire, of the intellectual wardrobe,
other garments than the scanty breechclouts, wristbands, ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Geographical Society by American Geographical Society of New York (1905)
"A few of the trackers wear breechclouts. The rest are stark naked. In deference
to the scruples of foreigners, the ship's company in Ichang wore the usual ..."
3. A Vagabond Journey Around the World: A Narrative of Personal Experience by Harry Alverson Franck (1911)
"Both were clothed in the scantiest of breechclouts. Now hen they squatted on
their smoothly polished heels, scratched !Iy at some portion of their scrawny ..."
4. In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers by Frederick Schwatka (1893)
"Their dark, swarthy bodies were almost the color of the rich soil in which they
toiled, making their white breechclouts and white straw hats, ..."
5. The Folly of Nations by Frederick Palmer (1921)
"The primitive warriors who wore only breechclouts had the advantage. The more
clothes we have to wear, covering our wounds, the less credit we heroes ..."
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