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† cod-piece Obs.
Also codpis, -piss.
[f. cod n.1 4 + piece.]
1. A bagged appendage to the front of the close-fitting hose or breeches worn by men from the 15th to the 17th c.: often conspicuous and ornamented.
c1460Towneley Myst. 313 A kodpese like a pokett. 1530Palsgr., Codpese, braiette. 1555Eden Decades i. viii. 38 The men..inclose their priuie members in a gourde cutte after the fashion of a codde-piece. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 28 The arrowes..light either upon their breasts, bellies, cod peeces, thighes, knees or legges. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 53. 1598 Marston Pygmal. Sat. ii. 145 Nay then I'le neuer raile at those That weare a codpis, thereby to disclose What sexe they are. 1648Herrick Hesper., Upon Shark, If the servants search, they may descry In his wide codpeece, dinner being done, Two napkins cramm'd up, and a silver spoone. 1652Ashmole Theat. Chem. Prol. 13 Uncouth Words..as a..Cod⁓piece. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy, Slawkenb. Tale, He put his breeches with his fringed cod-piece on.
b. transf. A similar appendage to female attire, worn on the breast.
1577Harrison England ii. vii. (1877) i. 170 [The women's] doublets with pendant codpeeses on the brest.
c. fig.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 122 For the rebellion of a Cod-peece, to take away the life of a man? 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin ii. 15 Could not Faith once plighted..Cool thy hot Cod-piece, but thou must be Gadding?
2. attrib., as cod-piece button; cod-piece point, the lace with which the cod-piece was fastened.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iv. iv. 61 He..made the yoong man untrusse his codpeece point. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 39 Whereof the foremost codpiece point is the crane's proverb in painted clothes, ‘Fear God, and obey the King’. 1658tr. Bergerac's Satyr. Char. i. 1 Winter hath tyed earths Codpiece point. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 56 It is us'd for Tobacco-boxes, Cod-piece-buttons, etc.
Hence † cod-pieced a.
1575G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 98 Larg bellid kod-peasid dubletts. 1655tr. Francion i–iii. 12 Any cold cod-pieced fellow. |