Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearing no breeches; not yet of the age to wear breeches.

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  • adjective Not wearing breeches.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ breeched

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Examples

  • But show us a miserable, unbreeched, human entity, whose whole profession it is to take a tub for a fortified town and a shaving-brush for the deadly stiletto, and who passes three-fourths of his time in a dream and the rest in open self-deception, and we expect him to be as nice upon a matter of fact as a scientific expert bearing evidence.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

  • "Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged — for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • "Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • "Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Get as much room as possible; tenderly pass little miss there, and her unbreeched brother, over to their smiling mamma.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 Various

  • So in all grades are there various matters of taste which become extravagance if rushed into by persons unbreeched for the occasion.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various

  • "Why sit here to be scorned by this unbreeched heathen?" cried Dudley.

    The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance John Turvill Adams

  • The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector’s junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.

    The Custom-House. Introductory to “The Scarlet Letter” 1917

  • He unbreeched it and spun the cylinder with his thumb and spilled the contents into his palm -- four loaded shells, suety and slick with grease, and one that had been recently fired; and it was discolored and flattened a trifle.

    The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

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