codpiece

n. 男裤前面的褶

发音

US
UK /ˈkɒdˌpiːs/

词形变化

codpieces 复数 codpieces

别名

cod-piece

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.

    历史

    , Act III, Scene III, line 130. Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?

  2. 2.

    A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

flap

整体词 4

knickers breeches knee-breeches knickerbockers

词源

From cod (“bag, pouch, scrotum”) + piece.

来源：wiktionary