Sentence examples for breechcloth from inspiring English sources
noun
An apron-like garment held on by a belt tied around the waist to cover the loins; a loincloth.
Clothing was simple, usually comprising no more than a breechcloth for men and a short skirt for women, and few remains of textiles have survived.
On a recent afternoon, Jason Johnson, clad in buckskin leggings, a breechcloth and a headdress of turkey feathers, was tending a fire and stripping the bark from tupelo logs in a wooded, two-acre plot behind the Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum in Southampton.
Clothing for those groups that did not use horses consisted of sage bark aprons and breechcloths, augmented by rabbit-skin robes in the winter; their artistic efforts were often expressed through fine basketry and rock art (petroglyphs and pictographs).
Men of the northernmost Tlingit and the Kitksan of the upper Skeena wore tailored buckskin breechcloths, leggings, and shirts in cold weather; elsewhere they wore robes of yellow cedar bark or pelts in cold weather and rain capes in downpours.
The Kutenai dressed in clothing made of antelope, deer, or buffalo hide (breechcloths for men, tunics for women), lived in conical tepees, and painted their garments, tents, and bodies much in the manner of the Plains tribes.
Most Salish wore clothing made of dressed skins: breechclouts (breechcloths) for men, tunics for women, and leggings and moccasins for all.
