What does well-breeched mean?
Well-breeched means (slang) Wealthy..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(slang) Wealthy..
That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.
Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.
Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.
What he saw was a well-breeched man holding the reins of a thoroughbred horse, a man whose dignity did not preclude his saddling the pony of a ragged priest. It confused him.
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Well-breeched means (slang) Wealthy..
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That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.
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