a. [UN-1 9.] Not dressed in breeches.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., I. ii. 158. Me thoughts I did requoyle Twentie three yeeres, and saw my selfe vn-breech’d, In my greene Veluet Coat.
1800. Wordsw., Two Thieves, 13. The One, yet unbreeched, is not three birthdays old.
c. 1837. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), I. vi. 112. All at once, the devil of their fathers entered into the unbreeched fanatics.
1879. Dowden, Southey, i. 5. Southey, an unbreeched boy of three years, was borne away one morning … to be handed over to the tender mercies of a school-mistress.
