cache-sexe

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʃˌsɛks/

Noun

cache-sexe (plural cache-sexes)

1. An article of clothing sufficient to cover the genitalia, primarily as used by an exotic dancer or in certain aboriginal cultures.
   • 2004, Robert A Heinlein, Glory Road:

     […] everyone, man or woman, must put on a little triangle of cloth, a cache-sexe, a G-string, before going inside the village.

   • 1990, Peggy Reeves Sanday, Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, Beyond the Second Sex: New Directions in the Anthropology of Gender:

     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).

Translations

article of clothing

• French: cache-sexe (fr) m
• Portuguese: tapa-sexo (pt) m
• Spanish: taparrabos (es) m

See also

• G-string

References

• David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot
• “cache-sexe”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

French

Etymology

From cacher (“to hide”) + sexe (“genital organ(s)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ.sɛks/

• Audio:

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Noun

cache-sexe m (plural cache-sexes)

1. cache-sexe

Further reading

• “cache-sexe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.