(n.) A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(2) The boy is short-haired and melancholic, his codpiece a sinister presence among the velvets and brocades in which he is clad.
(3) It was a bed made both for lusty sex and for begetting chubby babies like the carved cherubs flying over the heads of the couple depicted on the headboard – a man with bulging codpiece and a woman with meek, downcast eyes holding the phallic symbols of a sword and a serpent.
(4) The Spear, a black, red and yellow acrylic on canvas priced at 120,000 rand (£9,000), depicts Zuma in a suit and what could be a codpiece accentuating his genitals.
(5) Enthusiasts of Wolf Hall and its sequel may wonder what the Catholic church is doing concerning itself with English civil law several hundred years after the codpieced one emphatically rejected any such interference, on the subject of marriage not least.