How To Use Codpiece In A Sentence
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Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I played Iago's codpiece in Othello, and I gave my Bottom nightly for two months - and it was very well-received, I might add - in a production of Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses
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Och, "the figure added, in a different tone," and did you know as your codpiece are open?
Villains by Necessity
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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.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The dancers wore silver all-in-ones, headdresses and these codpieces on top of their trousers like in A Clockwork Orange.
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The shock behind the salesman's eyes could not have been greater had I asked him for a pair of spats, or to show me their current range of codpieces.
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Tremain's costume drama distinguishes itself by mixing just a drop of earthy magical realism into its ruffs and codpieces.
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When you elect a president, you're not just voting into The Most Powerful Job Ever the prettiest face, the straightest shooter, the amplest codpiece, the most fun guy or gal to have a beer with.
Hullabaloo
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It represents a bagpiper wearing a short doublet, full, knee-length breeches with a prominent codpiece, shoes with narrow rounded toes, and a hemispherical, skullcap-like hat with a very narrow brim.
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Well, said he, that were all one to me, to want both legs and arms, provided you and I had but one merry bout together at the brangle-buttock game; for herewithin is — in showing her his long codpiece — Master John Thursday, who will play you such an antic that you shall feel the sweetness thereof even to the very marrow of your bones.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches.
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In medieval and early modern times, male dress was opulent and highly erotic, as the Renaissance codpiece attests.
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She pressed up against me, her fingers tickling my codpiece though I knew she was after my purse.
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Will you maintain, quoth Pantagruel, that the codpiece is the chief piece of a military harness?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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What I think really gets under her skin is the fact that Barack Obama is wildly more popular among the people we have to share this planet with than her stuffed-sock-in-the-codpiece hero.
No Mas Macho
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Grunge provided an opportunity, as punk had before, for separating the wheat from the chaffâannihilating acts that had truly been predicated on nothing but hairstyles and codpieces, and allowing reconsideration and critical filtering of arena rock, metal, and prog that might have been burdened with excessive pompousness and trippy kozmik imagery, but still possessed enduring value.
Rush: a fanâs notes - Colby Cosh - Macleans.ca
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By the thirst of my thropple, friend, when snow is on the mountains, I say the head and the chin, there is not then any considerable heat to be expected in the valleys and low countries of the codpiece.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Perhaps a larger codpiece is required, and tights in a richer and more noble shade of purple.
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The body and dress of King Henry VIII of England served as icons of masculinity and power, his extravagant codpieces denoting his virility.
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Nothing, quotha, cried Friar John; by the soul of my overheated codpiece, friend Panurge and I here shake and quiver for mere hunger.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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He praises many un praiseworthy things besides debt: his praise of the codpiece is a considered essay on generation, as well as an ironic commentary on that segment of a man's trousers.
LITERARY PARADOX
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In addition to experience and a small quantity of supplies he has brought with him some of the most amazing codpieces of the orient I have ever set my eyes upon.
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I follow his footsteps, thrusting my codpiece towards maidens and wenches alike, my tasselled loafers pounding the aged cobblestones, my tights itching my thighs.
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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!
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