breeches

• He wore a swallow tail coat and knee-breeches, and had kinky white hair. —  GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION
• Cased and overgrown with Formulas, like very lobsters with their shells, from birth upwards; so that in the man we see only his breeches, and believe and swear that wherever a pair of old breeches are there is a man! —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
• This audacious youth in buckskin shirt and leather breeches was assuming the leadership of the House. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators
• Then the pipeclayed breeches--but that was a sore job; many a weary arm did they give me--beat-beating camstane into them The pipeclaying of the breeches, I was saying, was the most fashious job, let alone courtship, that ever mortal man put his hand to. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• One gentleman had left behind him a pair of leathern hunting-breeches, a soldier had forgotten his knapsack, a cripple his crutches! —  The Iron Horse

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