a. Also Sc. and north. dial. breekless; other Forms, see BREECH. [f. BREECH sb. + -LESS.] Without breeches; bare or naked about the buttocks.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1048. His brode lendez, He bekez by þe bale fyre, and breklesse hyme semede.
1470. Harding, Chron., l. iii. This stone On whiche ye Scottish Kynges wer brechelesse set At their coronomente.
1638. Songs Costume (1849), 141. Some like breechless women go, The Russ, Turk, Jew, and Grecian.
1822. Scott, Pirate, v. 45. A breekless loon frae Lochaber.
1864. Sat. Rev., XVIII. 711/1. Even a breechless islander, of the man Friday cast, would revolt at the idea.
1864. Atkinson, Whitby Gloss., s.v. Breeks, They were sarkless and breekless.