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breeches

noun as in hose

noun as in pedal pushers

noun as in trousers

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After she dismounted from her horse, a trainer noticed a split in her riding breeches and observed: "They weren't made for women's backsides."

From BBC

Black Rod's uniform consists of black shoes, buckles, breeches and a coat, as well as silk stockings.

From BBC

In his memoir, “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” Biden acknowledged discovering a polo mallet, riding breeches and other markers of a privileged life in his father’s closet.

It’s also not the kind of story you tell if you plan to ally yourself with the boy who fouled his breeches.

The laundry was hung indoors, and thirteen fireplaces were kept burning to warm the house and dry both the walls and the presidential family’s wet breeches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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