twenty-breeches

Updated: May 3, 2025

Saluted the Dutch fortress with Nine Guns, and got but Three for thanks; it being surprising what airs these Pipe-smoking, Herring-curing, Cheese-making, Twenty-breeches Gentry give themselves. 29th, we moored Ship, and sent our Sick ashore.

George Augustus Sala - The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 : Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave : among the moors...