Definition of "codpiece" []

• A pouch at the crotch of the tight-fitting breeches worn by men in the 15th and 16th centuries. (noun)

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• "Och, "the figure added, in a different tone," and did you know as your codpiece are open? ""
• "I've also heard he had a cuttlefish in his codpiece, which is likely where that cod-fishing rumor came from...he was trying to correct the fit!"
• "For the codpiece is the principal and most especial piece of armour that a warrior doth carry; and therefore do I maintain even to the fire (exclusively, understand you me), that no Turks can properly be said to be armed men, in regard that codpieces are by their law forbidden to be worn."