What does be-breeched mean?
Be-breeched means Wearing breeches..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Wearing breeches..
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.
Use be-breeched when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Be-breeched means Wearing breeches..
Common synonyms include breeched.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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