英语词汇codpiece的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

codpiece. The cod in the word originally meant “the bag en- veloping the testicles, the scrotum.” In the 15th century the codpiece was introduced as a simple leather bagged appendage attached to the front of breeches, the word first recorded in 1460. But within a century the appendage became a spectacular ornament, brightly colored and often the size of a small melon. In The Unfashionable Human Body, Bernard Rudofsky claims that the codpiece died as a fashion in the 17th century because the male genitals “seem too unsubstantial to warrant display.” This may be the case, because men often used the codpiece as a kind of pocket, storing things like money and bonbons in it. Robert Herrick wrote of a thieving dinner guest in Hesperides (1648): “If the servants search, they may decry in his wide cod- piece, dinner being done, Two napkins cramm’d up, and a silver spoone.”

词汇	codpiece
词源	codpiece. The cod in the word originally meant “the bag en- veloping the testicles, the scrotum.” In the 15th century the codpiece was introduced as a simple leather bagged appendage attached to the front of breeches, the word first recorded in 1460. But within a century the appendage became a spectacular ornament, brightly colored and often the size of a small melon. In The Unfashionable Human Body, Bernard Rudofsky claims that the codpiece died as a fashion in the 17th century because the male genitals “seem too unsubstantial to warrant display.” This may be the case, because men often used the codpiece as a kind of pocket, storing things like money and bonbons in it. Robert Herrick wrote of a thieving dinner guest in Hesperides (1648): “If the servants search, they may decry in his wide cod- piece, dinner being done, Two napkins cramm’d up, and a silver spoone.”
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