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Breeches vs Shorts - What's the difference?

breeches | shorts |

As nouns the difference between breeches and shorts

is that breeches is plural of lang=en while shorts is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

breeches

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(head)
  • A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
  • * 1829 , , "The Devil's Thoughts,"
    • And how then was the Devil drest?
    Oh! he was in his Sunday's best:
    His jacket was red and his breeches were blue,
    And there was a hole where the tail came through.
  • (informal) Trousers; pantaloons; britches.

    • Related terms

    * breeches buoy: in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to the shore, and is drawn to land by hauling lines. * breeches pipe:, a forked pipe forming two branches united at one end. * knee breeches: breeches coming to the knee, and buckled or fastened there; smallclothes. * wear the breeches (Colloquial): to usurp the authority of the husband; -- said of a wife. * become too big for one's britches (Southern U.S.) : to have an overblown feeling of self importance.

    See also

    * pantaloons * britches * jodhpurs

    shorts

    English

    (wikipedia shorts)

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • English plurals
  • Pants worn primarily in the summer that do not go lower than the knees.
    • Jessica hated covering her legs, so she rarely wore anything but shorts .
  • Underwear bottoms.
    • After a scare like that, I need to change my shorts .
  • (uncountable) Remnants, clippings, trimmings of production processes.
  • The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
  • * Halliwell
    • The first remove above bran is shorts .
  • Short, inferior hemp.

    • Derived terms

    * boardshorts * booty shorts * boxer shorts * swimshorts * sleep shorts

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