codpiece

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Those who don't agree that a customized codpiece is the most comfortable item of clothing yet designed by man has simply never worn one.

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  1. noun A pouch at the crotch of the tight-fitting breeches worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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  • Several thick strands of seeweed were hanging from the region the woman had been looking at, like a codpiece. —  Question Quest
  • Still, Anderson had a few tricks left in his codpiece (figuratively speaking), like the surprisingly satisfactory —  PopMatters
  • Schumacher's desecration of the batsuit -- complete with nipples and codpiece, too many villains, too many bat-people, too much neon, and too little storyline contributed to killing off the franchise for eight years -- until it was rebooted in 2005 with a more serious tone. —  Comic Book Movie
  • I mean, a two foot long elephant trunk codpiece is pretty funny in and of itself, but man when he did his final site gag with both my wife and I had tears in our eyes. —  Last Blogger
  • We have a striking and comparatively modern European example of an article of clothing designed to draw attention to the sexual sphere in the codpiece (the French braguette_), familiar to us through fifteenth and sixteenth century pictures and numerous allusions in Rabelais and in Elizabethan literature. —  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
 

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  1. Middle English codpece : cod, bag, scrotum (from Old English codd, bag) + pece, piece; see piece.
 

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