Usually means: Pants extending to knees, historical.
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  1. breeches: Merriam-Webster
  2. breeches: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breeches: Collins English Dictionary
  4. breeches: Vocabulary.com
  5. Breeches, breeches: Wordnik
  6. breeches: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. breeches: Wiktionary
  8. breeches: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. breeches: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. breeches: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Breeches, breeches: Dictionary.com
  12. breeches: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. breeches: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Breeches: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Breeches: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. breeches: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. breeches: Rhymezone
  18. Breeches: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. breeches: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Breeches: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. breeches: FreeDictionary.org
  22. breeches: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. breeches: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. breeches: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. breeches: Encyclopedia

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  1. breeches: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. breeches: Medical dictionary

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  1. Breeches: Easton Bible

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breeches: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
noun:  (informal) Trousers; pantaloons.

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