At one point a myopic don mistakes the commonplace young Housman for the notorious Irish student who wears plum-colored velvet breeches and his hair long.
Philip's coat and velvet breeches of dark blue did not precisely match.
He was clad in faded velvet breeches, a velvet coat that didn't fit, shabby hose, and a ruffled shirt decorated with tattered lace.
He stood, tucked the dice in his pouch, and brushed off the knees of his worn velvet breeches.
I have to speak, sing, dance, slap my thigh, the works, in velvet breeches.
They were all here, the suits that I had worn upon the stage at Kitty's side - the velvet breeches, the shirts, the serge jackets, the fancy waistcoats.
Powdered footmen in velvet breeches served them hot-house nectarines.
Many of them wore slashed velvet breeches and leather armor.
Beneath layers of cloth-of-gold and his velvet breeches, I could feel his phallus stir against my buttocks.
The men were stripped to the waist and wore identical black velvet breeches.