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codpiece englanniksi
A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothin), 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?
A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.
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