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A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- , 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?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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(15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flap
From cod (“bag, pouch, scrotum”) + piece.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Danish:
skamkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Dutch:
gulp
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Dutch:
braguette
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Dutch:
schaambuidel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Dutch:
kulzak
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Finnish:
kalukukkaro
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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French:
braguette
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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German:
Schamkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Macedonian:
меѓуножник
(meǵunožnik)
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Marathi:
कॉडपीस
(kŏḍpīs)
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Norwegian:
skamkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Norwegian:
skampose
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Norwegian Bokmål:
skamkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Norwegian Bokmål:
skampose
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Polish:
mieszek
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Polish:
saczek
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Portuguese:
braguilha
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Serbo-Croatian:
nakurnjak
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Slovene:
bavtara
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Swedish:
blygdkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Swedish:
skamkapsel
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Swedish:
byxpung
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Swedish:
braguette
— part of male dress to cover genitals
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Dutch:
braguette
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Dutch:
schaambuidel
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Finnish:
kalukukkaro
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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German:
Schamkapsel
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Macedonian:
меѓуножник
(meǵunožnik)
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Marathi:
कॉडपीस
(kŏḍpīs)
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Polish:
saczek
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Slovene:
bavtara
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
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Welsh:
balog
— protection for the male genitals in suit of armor
