cache-sexe

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 See also 1.4 References

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

French: cacher (to hide) and sexe (sex)

[edit] 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

   Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road (2004).

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

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

   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).

[edit] Translations

• French: cache-sexe fr(fr) m.

[edit] See also

• g-string

[edit] References

• David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
• dictionary.reference.com