Definition of codpiece in English Turkish dictionary
- Gerek görülen kıyafetlerde erkeklerin yumurtalıklarını korumak için on kısımda bulunan parça
Definition of codpiece in English English dictionary
- A part of male dress in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals, sometimes made very conspicuous in former times
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 soliders 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
On some suits were screwed large iron cod-pieces; these, according to tradition, were intended to prevent the ill consequences of those violent shocks received in charging, either in battle, or at a tournament. Same say, they were meant to contain sponges for receiving the water of knights, who in the heat of an engagement might not have any more convenient method of discharging it. But most probably, they were rather constructed in conformity to a reigning fashion in the make of the breeches of those times.
- A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous
- (15th-16th century) a flap for the crotch of men's tight-fitting breeches
- {i} small decorative pouch used to cover the genitals on a pair of men breeches (worn in the 15th and 16th centuries)
- A codpiece was a piece of material worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries to cover their genitals. a piece of coloured cloth worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries to cover the opening in the front of their trousers (cod (11-19 centuries) (from codd) + piece)
- codpieces
- plural of codpiece