well-breeched

English

Adjective

well-breeched (comparative more well-breeched, superlative most well-breeched)

1. (slang) Wealthy.
   • 1950, Ralph Bates, The Dolphin in the Wood, page 149:

     That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.

   • 1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194:

     Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.

   • 1985, Eileen Jackson, The Secret Bluestocking, page 165:

     Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.

   • 2010, P. J. Keogh, In Those Blighted Fields, page 242:

     What he saw was a well-breeched man holding the reins of a thoroughbred horse, a man whose dignity did not preclude his saddling the pony of a ragged priest. It confused him.