English
Etymology
French: cacher (to hide) and sexe (sex)
Noun
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
#:...everyone, man or woman, must put on a little triangle of cloth, a cache-sexe, a G-string, before going inside the village. Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road (2004).
#:The mother or such a baby rises before dawn and removes her cache-sex (a small piece of cloth that every woman wears as an undergarment). Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender (1990).
Translations
French: cache-sexe m
See also
g-string
References
David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
dictionary.reference.com
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