be-breeched
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.45 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If a representative of the law were to ask a girl on the boulevards what she meant by sporting breeches in the streets she would answer that she had left her cycle round the corner, or was on her way to fetch it, and what could the sargot say to that? A good many of these be-breeched fair ones were never across a cycle in their lives, but that does not matter in the least."
- "BE-BREECHED DAUGHTERS BARRED FROM PLACE IN CATHEDRAL"
- "I should think two-thirds rode side-saddle—and infinitely more graceful they looked than their be-breeched sister astride."
- "A gallant, be-breeched gentleman, the hemispheres of his Bedford Cords flapping gloriously in rhythm with the lope of his mount, galloped by us footsloggers on Salisbury Plain."
Etymology
From be- + breech + -ed.