cache-sexe
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cache-sexe, from cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).
Noun edit
cache-sexe (plural cache-sexes)
- 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 edit
article of clothing
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See also edit
References edit
- David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
- “cache-sexe”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
French edit
Etymology edit
From cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cache-sexe m (plural cache-sexes)
Further reading edit
- “cache-sexe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.