breech
noun
the lower, rear part of the trunk of the body; buttocks.
unbreeched
-
a word derived from
breech.
Example Sentences
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So in all grades are there various matters of taste which become extravagance if rushed into by persons unbreeched for the occasion.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, by Various
The unbreeched artist of four summers never tired of scrutinizing the statues, monsters, gargoyles and other outer ornamentations, while the story of the pious architect Erwin and of his inspirer, Sabine, was equally dear.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
"That we will," said I, with as bitter a resolution to impart the instruction as ever schoolmaster did to whip Latin grammar into one of the great unbreeched.
From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever
And at that time we were an unbreeched people, like the Indians— saving your Highnesses' reverence—and the climate here is too cold for such costume.
From History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1602-03 by John Lothrop Motley
The next moment he was as ready for sport as any unbreeched infant: far readier than the Collector's junior clerk, who at nineteen years was much the elder and graver man of the two.
From The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
