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well-ˈbreeched, ppl. a.
Prosperous, well-to-do. Cf. breeched ppl. a. 4.
1821P. Egan Life in London ii. ii. 178 Jerry is in Tip Street upon this occasion, and the Mollishers are all nutty upon him, putting it about, one to another, that he is a well breeched Swell. 1860Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 104 Breeched, or to have the bags off, to have plenty of money; ‘to be well breeched’, to be in good circumstances. 1968P. Scott Day of Scorpion i. ii. 64 Her first husband..died well-breeched. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts Apr. 266/1 That they had been able to become rich or well-breeched in a worldly sense is incidental. 1985Times 22 Mar. 23/8 Britoil presents the spectacle of a fairly well-breeched oil group. |