Meanings
plural cache-sexes
- An article of clothing sufficient to cover the genitalia, primarily as used by an exotic dancer or in certain aboriginal cultures.
[…] everyone, man or woman, must put on a little triangle of cloth, a cache-sexe, a G-string, before going inside the village.
2004, Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road1 more example
The mother of such a baby rises before dawn and removes her cache-sexe (a small piece of cloth that every woman wears as an undergarment).
1990, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender
Origin
- Frenchcache-sexe
- Englishcache-sexe
Borrowed from French cache-sexe, from cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French cache-sexe
- cache-sexearticle of clothing
Portuguese tapa-sexo
- tapa-sexoarticle of clothing
Spanish taparrabos
- taparrabosarticle of clothing
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cache-sexe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cache-sexe
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