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Breeches are short trousers that just below the knees. For a long time this was ordinary men’s clothing in Europe, usually worn with long . Today you mainly see them on people riding horses, in period films, or in old paintings — not in the street. The word is almost always plural, like trousers or scissors: you wear breeches, a pair of breeches. It sounds old-fashioned or specialist. Younger speakers almost never use it for everyday pants. Though actually an old joke, ‘to wear the breeches’, meant the wife was the one in charge at home — from a time when only men wore them.
馬褲（及膝、膝下扣住，不是普通短褲）
組成From Middle English breches, from Old English brēċ, the plural of brōc (legging, the buttocks), from a Germanic word for crotch-clothing / trousers. English kept the old plural shape.
同家族的字
- breechsame old ‘lower body’ word; now also the back of a gun
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
breechesnoun/ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/
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historicalA garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.
- 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.
- "In the coach in which I rode, there was a vacant seat till our arrival in Birmingham. Leaving Birmingham I found it filled with a fat Englishman, in drab breeches and gaiter boots, the finest specimen of a thorough John Bull that I had seen—weight about sixteen stone. He wore two top coats, a broad brimmed hat, and an enormous red travelling shawl, behind the folds of which his portly double chin was entirely hidden.
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informalTrousers; pantaloons.
- But now there's only old Manning, and young William, and a new-fashioned woman gardener in breeches and such-like.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。