Citations:braguette


 * brayette (armor) or codpiece,


 * 2004, Elizabeth Chesney Zegura, Elizabeth A. Chesney, The Rabelais Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780313310348), page 37:
 * CODPIECE (BRAGUETTE) Taking their origin from plated suits of armor, Renaissance braguettes or codpieces exaggerated the size of the male member underneath and were often decorated.


 * codpiece:


 * 2016, David P. LaGuardia, Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature: Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Routledge (ISBN 9781317113386), page 124:
 * Chapter VIII, “Comment la braguette est premiere piece de harnois entre gens de guerre,” transcribes an extended false genealogy of the braguette as perhaps the ultimate signifier of warfare, and hence of its importance for the ...
 * 2019, Jennifer H. Oliver, Shipwreck in French Renaissance Writing, Oxford Modern Languages & Lite (ISBN 9780198831709), page 77:
 * The significance of the braguette in Rabelais has itself been the subject of much discussion.” When Panurge abandons his braguette in the Tiers Livre, its lack is experienced as the loss of his source of security, precisely against ...
 * 2011, Celeste Brusati, Karl A. E.. Enenkel, Walter Melion, The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700, BRILL (ISBN 9789004215153), page 110:
 * Panurge&#39;s flamboyant codpiece or braguette has been interpreted as a sign of a triumphant virility which contrasts Thaumaste&#39;s weak and effeminate passivity. With the constellation thus biased, it seems to offer itself as a metonymy of ...
 * 2013, Giacomo Casanova, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 6: Spanish Passions, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781625581709)
 * An edict was published and affixed to the doors of all the churches, in which it was declared that breeches with braguettes were only to be worn by the public hangmen. Then the fashion passed away; for no one cared to pass for the ...
 * 1894, Giacomo Casanova, The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova, page 91:
 * Those who wore braguettes were imprisoned, and all tailors making breeches with braguettes were severely punished. Nevertheless, people persisted in wearing them, and the priests and monks preached in vain against the indecency ...