Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of be-breeched.
We found a couple of companion spirits already there, bebooted and bespurred and bebreeched.
1935 December 15, Gordon Gaskill, “Boot and Spur”, in The Knoxville Sunday Journal, volume XI, number 51, Knoxville, Tenn., pages 4—C2 more examples
The idea of putting pants on waitresses—or half pants, to be mathematically correct—originated with the manager, as a result of the installation of a mural painting showing a number of red-coated, bebreeched ladies participating in a fox hunt.
1921 April 28, “Red trouserettes on waitresses cause stir: Business men flood Chicago restaurant; regain old time pep in race to get tables.”, in Buffalo Express, volume LXXVI, number 89, Buffalo, N.Y., page 2First came the folk dancers from Mr. Walt Disney’s “People and Places” series: the Scots in a blaze of tartans and a braw blare of the pipes; the agile Swedes, the bebreeched and braided Austrians and their robustious Schulpletter;
1958 August 2, Charles Stinson, “Childen Entranced at the Bowl”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXVII, page 11
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