a. Also Sc. and north. dial. breekless; other Forms, see BREECH. [f. BREECH sb. + -LESS.] Without breeches; bare or naked about the buttocks.

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a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 1048. His brode lendez, He bekez by þe bale fyre, and breklesse hyme semede.

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1470.  Harding, Chron., l. iii. This stone … On whiche ye Scottish Kynges wer brechelesse set At their coronomente.

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1638.  Songs Costume (1849), 141. Some like breechless women go, The Russ, Turk, Jew, and Grecian.

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1822.  Scott, Pirate, v. 45. A breekless loon frae Lochaber.

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1864.  Sat. Rev., XVIII. 711/1. Even a breechless islander, of the man Friday cast, would revolt at the idea.

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1864.  Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v. Breeks, They were sarkless and breekless.

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