breach n.
the vagina.
Rape of Lucrece 464: Rude ram, to batter such an ivory wall [...] To make the breach and enter this sweet city. | ||
Renegado II iii: This tis to want munition when a man Should make a breach and enter. | ||
‘Full Forty Times Over’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 61: There’s a breach ready made, which still open hath been, With thousands of thoughts to betray it within, If you once but approach you are sure to get in. | ||
Nugae Venales 303: Who is a bold daring Woman? [...] She that dares singly oppose ten Men at the entrance of one breach. | ||
‘Tom Tiler, or the Nurse’ in Poems on Affairs of State (1963) IV 258: A Prince come in the nick of time (Bless’d d’Adda!), ’tis a venial crime / That shall repair our breach of state. | ||
Petition of the Widows in Harleian Misc. X (1810) 174: Getting of a maidenhead was a drudgery fit for none [...] there needs no great trouble to enter a city when a breach is once made in the walls. | ||
Wandering Spy 17–24 Nov. 26: The Company withdrew, and left the young Sailor to enter the Fort, by that Breach, where Enemies and Friends of all Nations had enter’d a Thousand times before. | ||
Peregrine Pickle (1964) 641: ‘Egad! ’tis my opinion, that if your covered way was laid open, few people would venture to give the assault.’ [...] ‘As for that matter,’ cried the other with precipitation, ‘they would have no occasion to batter in breach; they would find the angle of the la pucelle bastion demolished to their hands: he he!’. | ||
Belle’s Stratagem 67: Let me mount the downy breach of Venus. | ||
‘The Gobbio’ Chap Book Songs No. 5 7: He battered a breach, but missed his reach, / His faggots being too small to fill the ditch, / She off with disdain did fling him O. | ||
Bacchanalian Mag. 26: Original and selected Toasts and sentiments [...] Death in the Breach. | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 48: brèche, f. 1. The female pudendum; ‘the breach’. |