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cache-sexe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈkaʃˌsɛks/

Etymology

Borrowed from French cache-sexe, from cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).

Meanings

1. 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. 2004, Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road:
   • The mother of such a baby rises before dawn and removes her cache-sexe (a small piece of cloth that every woman wears as an undergarment). 1990, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender:

Forms

Relateds

G-string

Translations (3)

es taparrabos (article of clothing) · fr cache-sexe (article of clothing) · pt tapa-sexo (article of clothing)