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Breechclout

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n. breechcloth or loincloth

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. covering for the loins.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The cloth covering the breech, worn by American Indians and other uncivilized peoples.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a garment that provides covering for the loins

Word Usage

"By “Indian dress” he meant costume common to whites as well as Indians in the west: moccasins, leggings, breechclout, and a hunting shirt, a knee-length smock of linen, wool, or linsey-woolsey, drab and durable."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

garment

Hyponym

dhoti

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

breechcloth loincloth G-string

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