breechclout
- a variation of breechcloth.
Example Sentences
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She’s in “full regalia — a turkey-bone breastplate, a fawn leather breechclout — her hair braided and adorned with a single raven’s feather.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2016
It featured Dan Brand, a Philadelphia socialite during Revolutionary War times who ends up being trained by Native Americans, gains a sidekick named Tipi and runs around the frontier in a breechclout.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2011
The Calloused Hand Johnny Weissmuller, 43, for 17 years the screen's ranking Tarzan, conceded to his middle-aging middle, shed his breechclout for a bush-jacket in a new movie called Jungle Jim.
From Time Magazine Archive
Turning his faddery into a business, he manufactured wide-selling cereal foods, broadcast his picture in a breechclout.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their driver was one of the cousin’s slaves, a small man with a wheel tattooed upon one cheek, naked but for a breechclout and a pair of sandals.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
