cache-sexe

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French, from cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).

Noun

cache-sexe (plural cache-sexes)

1. An article of clothing sufficient to cover the genitalia, primarily as used by an exotic dancer or in certain aboriginal cultures.
   • 2004, Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road:

     […] everyone, man or woman, must put on a little triangle of cloth, a cache-sexe, a G-string, before going inside the village.

     1990, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender:

     The mother of such a baby rises before dawn and removes her cache-sexe (a small piece of cloth that every woman wears as an undergarment).

Translations

article of clothing

• French: cache-sexe (fr) m

• Portuguese: tapa-sexo (pt) m

See also

• G-string

References

• David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
• “cache-sexe” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.