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britches

[ brich-iz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)


britches

/ ˈbrɪtʃɪz /

plural noun

  1. a variant spelling of breeches
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of britches1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

That’s roughly 200 years before Turfan man rode horseback in his britches.

She insists, laughing, that her grandfather looked better in his britches than Adolf Hitler did in his.

The second one pulled out a cannon and poked it at the bartender and told him to keep his britches on.

Ere Alfred could reply, a big gawk chimed in with: "By the dust on their britches laigs I callerate they didn't ride much."

Also, I put on Phoebe's pea-green cotton skirt, while my knee britches hung behind the stove, drying.

As a gineral thing, when a woman wares the britches, she has a good rite tew them.

He had on a pair of black britches and a brown shirt and a little sort of light-gray-looking jacket.

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