codpiece
noun/ˈkɒdpiːs/
/ˈkɑːdpiːs/
- a piece of cloth, usually decorated, attached to a man’s lower clothing and covering his genitals, worn in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesWord Originfrom earlier cod ‘scrotum’ (from Old English codd ‘bag, pod’) + piece.
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