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codpiece
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Word definitions for codpiece in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "a bagged appendage to the front of the breeches; often conspicuous" [OED], from Old English codd "a bag, pouch, husk," in Middle English, "testicles" (cognate with Old Norse koddi "pillow, scrotum") + piece (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A part of male dress in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals, sometimes made very conspicuous in former times. 2 A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A tribesman, wearing only a codpiece and feathers in his hair, stamps his spear and utters a deep moan. ▪ Guitarist Warren De Martini looks the part - skinny, cocky, codpiece screaming, is all tart and no voice. ▪ She pressed ...
Usage examples of codpiece.
But when codpieces swell and braguettes can scarcely contain their exuberant contents, the monk nails his theses to the door.
Why not the Ramsbottom Codpiece or the Hercules Codpiece or the Bangaclang Codpiece?
Most of the men wore the gaudily colored and oversized codpieces favored these days among the youth of the Basic Income class.
The majority of the spectators, grown men and late adolescents who wore the gaudy codpieces and indefinable look of the jobless, lost most of their enthusiasm for betting and brooded in sullen silence.
Fred soon emerged from the locker room, clad in loose whitish trousers and jackets, only moderately translucent, and wearing athletes codpieces of hard protective plastic.
The final touch, and Solyma had to work hard to keep from laughing, was an overstuffed codpiece colored an eyewatering yellow.
It was incidental, he told himself, it was not important in this emergency, that removing the trousers would mean taking off the codpiece too and this would mean stripping his de-tumescent body of his proper sexual emphasis.
Fred hastened to get his codpiece and shorts from the chair and put them on.
The bishop wore the exaggerated white codpiece of his office, under a vaguely transparent robe.
Hall was now standing nude and shivering slightly in the dawn, wringing out his shorts, his dripping codpiece slung over one shoulder.
Shirt, trunks, codpiece, doublet, feathered French hat, slashed shoes -- clothes of synthetic cloth that was an exact simulacrum of old-time weaving, the shoes of good leather handmade.
Rolian was standing in those trees with his sword in the crook of his arm and the laces of his codpiece in his hands, in the eternal wide-legged pose of men relieving themselves in the woods, facing away into the darkness.
The supervisor of police was provocatively clad in black leather trunks with a studded codpiece hanging from the crotch.
After stripping down to his silken drawers and crotch-length linen undertunic, he first strapped on a horn-and-boiled-leather codpiece and made certain that his penis and scrotum were tucked well inside the protective device and were not in danger of being pinched by its edges.
It ended with a sexual orientation series, complete with flash holos, a needle sampling his blood, and a very uncomfortable metal codpiece with leads hooked to the computer.