breechcloth
noun
breechcloths
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pluralof breechcloth.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Australian aborigines wore only breechcloths, their bodies painted in geometric patterns of dots and streaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thatch roofs were giving way to tin, while shorts and T shirts were replacing breechcloths and feathers.
From Time Magazine Archive
They do usually wear shirts with short tails behind, and very economical breechcloths, but their shirts are sleeveless, and the buttons are missing on collar and bosom.
From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Murat Halstead
Thirty yards away two Shawnee warriors in all the savage glory of their war paint, naked save for breechcloths, were passing, examining the woods with careful eye.
From The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
The sash, his badge of office, he said had long since gone in breechcloths.
From Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed
