Small boys did wear dresses in this period until they were 'breeched'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

At age 7, or so, the boys were "breeched;" that is, they were made to wear long pants.    From Wordnik.com.  [So your 5-year-old boy wants to dress like a girl....] Reference

As Lionel Lambourne points out notice the little boy in a frock who had not yet reached the age to be 'breeched'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference

Why, damme, the lad was only breeched the other day.    From Wordnik.com.  [For the term of his natural life] Reference

There was a-- the embassy was breeched by some protesters.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2008] Reference

"I am not an un breeched child, I may marry whom I choose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dearly Beloved] Reference

The 1940s era enclosure had been breeched by tigers in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiry Critiques Zoo’s Response to Tiger Attack - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Domine Sampson and the magistrate who appeared un-breeched before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

When do you know that a levee is about to be breeched or overrun?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005] Reference

“What if the mother is bleeding to death during a breeched birth?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [These Old Men Are Getting Away With Murder!] Reference

Question: "So the White House wouldn't tell you the levees had breeched?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Unhappy Anniversary] Reference

The gods very well may have breeched that levee, especially considering.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Are Nothing Without Your Robot. Nothing. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

That's exactly where Columbia's heat shield was breeched in January of 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 10, 2007] Reference

Last month, 159,000 more jobs slid down the tubes as unemployment breeched 6%.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bubble, The Bailout, Good Jobs, and Goodfellas] Reference

A company who has breeched trade sanctions in dealing with Iraq, Libya and Iran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Boehner Agrees With Progressives: Obama’s Spending Freeze Should Not Exclude Defense Spending] Reference

The Army Corps of Engineers are the ones who built the levees that were breeched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Rockey To Katrina Victims: Stop ‘Sitting Around and Complaining’ About Bush and ‘Be Thankful For What We Got’] Reference

The Government did indeed suggest prison sentences for those who breeched the DPA.    From Wordnik.com.  [If directors can go to prison for failure below why can't ministers?] Reference

He was seven years old by now, breeched in corduroys, which had had time to grow rusty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Scarcely breeched and forced to challenge Monterey after a whipping from his sharp tongue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Frozen Heart]

Hawkwind cordoned the breeched area, then pushed forward, slowly compressing the invaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire In His Hands]

The difference between breeched and topped decided whether they would do nothing or do what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a Matter of Words] Reference

That and the breeched levees may be what makes New Orleans an uninhabitable place from now on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane] Reference

"Don't lift your voice to me, you tar-breeched dog!" he roared in a voice as gusty as the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown Of Conan]

Fewer than two thousand remained when the wicker man's sorceries finally breeched the Tower gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

You know, it ` s possible one or both were in the witness protection program, and that was breeched.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2009] Reference

“Go to,” said Wayland, “thou art a prating boy, and should be breeched for thine assurance.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenilworth] Reference

And we seriously breeched that when entering a country, based on a fabricated lie, fed to all and US.    From Wordnik.com.  [ugotsoul Diary Entry] Reference

Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurricane George: How the White House Drowned New Orleans] Reference

This is your President speaking: The levee has been breeched and the situation is much worse than anticipated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush: "This Is Your President Speaking"] Reference

"You to be like any one of us -- breeched, clouted, swathed -- and a lovely lass within your shirt -- Madonna!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

He had had dim visions of Christopher slipping in by a side entrance avoiding the eyes of plush-breeched lords-in-waiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

If he had been called on to expiate an offence committed before he was breeched, the young gentleman could not have been more astounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862] Reference

My sister in law who had a 3 hour vaginal deliver of her 1st child, had to have a c section for her second because the baby was breeched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angelina Jolie Uncensored!: Vanity Fair] Reference

All the same players who brought Bush-style Reconstruction to Iraq were brought into New Orleans faster than Katrina breeched the levees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baghdad on the Bayou; Reconstruction Redux.....Return of The Carpetbaggers] Reference

Egypt is trying to regain control of the border first breeched Wednesday by Palestinians trying to stock up on desperately needed supplies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2008] Reference