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The Samoyedes are a Mongolian race of Ural-Altaic stock, inhabiting the tundras of north east Europe and Siberia. They are nomadic, dwelling in tents or huts and hunting and fishing. They were described in 1588 by Giles Fletcher as eaters of raw flesh, black haired and beardless, men and women alike wearing shirts, breeches and boots made of seal-skin.
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The Royal Scots Fusiliers are a British army regiment first formed in Scotland in 1678 by the Earl Of Mar, and originally known as the Earl Of Mar's Fusiliers - and by the nickname of the Earl of Mar's Grey Breeks on account of their grey breeches - and later called the 21st Regiment Of Foot. They were transferred to an English establishment in 1689 under the name of the 21st Royal North British Fusiliers and received the title of Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1877.
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In a steam locomotive, the smoke-box is a hollow space or box at the front end of a locomotive boiler. It is divided from the boiler by the end boiler plate known as the smoke-box tube plate, into which the forward ends of the boiler tubes are fitted. On top of the smoke-box the chimney is fixed, and centrally below the chimney is the breeches-pipe (the exhaust pipes from the cylinder, which converge into one pointing vertically upwards). As the steam exhausts up the chimney, it creates a forced draught in the smoke-box, thereby drawing the heat from the firebox through the boiler tubes. The steam-pipe from the boiler and superheater passes down the smoke-box, branching into two, one to each cylinder. At the front end the smoke-box is fitted with a circular door to allow cleaning.
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Brechs were a man's linen undergarment consisting of breeches with a full draw-string waist.
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Breeches are leg coverings, usually ending just above or just below the knees. Breeches were in use among the Babylonians and other ancient peoples as well as among the moderns. In Europe we find them first used among the Gauls; hence the Romans called a part of Gaul breeched Gaul. Trousers are longer and looser than the breeches that used to be worn.
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Cloak bag breeches were very full breeches, drawn in a little over the knee and decorated with lace or point decoration and won by men during the early seventeenth century.
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A codpiece was originally a small bag or box worn by women to conceal the front opening in their breeches, and contained handkerchiefs or money. Later a codpiece became a bagged or padded appendage fitted to the crutch of a man's trousers enhancing the bulge created the wearer's genitalia.
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Culottes are women's breeches or shorts that hang like a skirt but have separate legs. They were devised during the 1930's at a time when it was socially unacceptable for western women to wear shorts.
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A fall is a button-up flap at the front of a man's pair of breeches.
Galligaskins or gallygaskins were loose wide breeches worn by men in the 17th century. Later the term was applied to leather leggings worn in the 19th century.
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