breechclout
IPA: brˈitʃkɫˈaʊt
noun
- (dated) A breechcloth or loincloth.
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Examples of "breechclout" in Sentences
- After that he wore a breechclout, leggings, and moccasins.
- The breechclout was so filthy it was like wearing dirt, but this wasn't a time to get finicky.
- Sweat poured down his body under the leather shirt, soaked the draggled breechclout between his legs.
- Large brass hoops were in his ears; he was naked to the waist, wearing simply leggings, moccasins and a breechclout.
- The young man then ventured out to a lonely place where he would see no one, clad only in breechclout and moccasins.
- He had thrust the wet moccasins down the neck of his shirt, and icy trickles ran down chest and belly, soaking his breechclout.
- By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable.
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