How to Use codpiece in a Sentence
codpiece
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The Bulge, the Tumor, the codpiece, was the safest place structurally in all of Trump Land by then.
—Jeff Vandermeer, Slate Magazine, 10 Feb. 2017
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Long before there were jockstraps, codpieces scandalized the world in both art and life.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
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Fashions change, and the current speed demons—cars such as the Pontiac SSEi—wear their prowess like a codpiece.
—Martin Padgett Jr., Car and Driver, 15 June 2020
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At some point in the artwork’s past, a vandal scratched or scribbled lines on five of its most prominent codpieces.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 13 Dec. 2019
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Other variations on the theme included a black codpiece-cup and a pair of red leather hot pants, all accessorized with pale, hairy limbs.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2018
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Deacon’s mishmash of bloomers, codpieces, and 16th-century ruffs made of false hair was equal parts Fred Flintstone and Tim Burton.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2018
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European men around the same time wore codpieces to advertise their phallic prowess.
—John Blake, CNN, 20 Oct. 2017
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Ty Lue has instructed all of his players to wear metal codpieces beneath their shorts to increase the likelihood that Draymond Green will have to exit the series with a severe foot injury.
—Mike Polk Jr., cleveland.com, 4 June 2017
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There are undeniably moments, many of them wordless: a floundering Ferrell in a snow-white onesie with a homemade codpiece; a hamster-wheel stage stunt gone horrendously wrong.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 24 June 2020
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In 1941, a conservator discovered that some details had been changed; most provocatively, some men’s genitals, which Bruegel portrayed in prominent pouches called codpieces, had been painted over.
—Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2020
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The show begins with a prologue delivered (in Italian, with supertitles) by a commedia dell’arte-style clown in a codpiece (an antic Francesca Sarah Toich), who gleefully describes the transformative power of love.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2017
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