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  • noun Plural form of breechcloth.

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Examples

  • The men were dressed in breechcloths, some with light capes over their shoulders; bark rain hats dangled down their backs.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The men were dressed in breechcloths, some with light capes over their shoulders; bark rain hats dangled down their backs.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Their breechcloths were spun from gold and fitted tightly around their upper thighs.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • The pyramid was only half as high, its leveled summit crowded with hundreds of dark men in breechcloths hoisting blocks with a primitive scaffolding.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • The pyramid was only half as high, its leveled summit crowded with hundreds of dark men in breechcloths hoisting blocks with a primitive scaffolding.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Bits of colored shells and sea urchin spines dangled from their ears and necks and at the belts of their ghomaskin breechcloths.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Bits of colored shells and sea urchin spines dangled from their ears and necks and at the belts of their ghomaskin breechcloths.

    Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996

  • Sometimes in the middle of a battle the Chihenne would taunt the scouts, inviting them mockingly to come to dinner or waving their breechcloths in insult.

    Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

  • Sometimes in the middle of a battle the Chihenne would taunt the scouts, inviting them mockingly to come to dinner or waving their breechcloths in insult.

    Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994

  • Without the breechcloths, or with one of plainer stuff, one of these warriors would blend into the landscape so well that he could creep right up to the boundary of the camp without being seen.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

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