brācae | braccae, ae | brāca | brāces (noun F) : (not ), (once in sing. , , Ov. Tr. 5, 10, 34; and as access. form , Edict. Diocl. p. 20), Germ.; Swed. brōk; Angl. -Sax. brōk; Engl. breeches; Dutch, broek
* Trowsers, breeches; orig. worn only by barbarians, i.e. neither Greeks nor Romans: barbara tegmina crurum,Verg. A. 11, 777; in the time of the emperors also among the Romans,Ov. Tr. 5, 7, 49: Galli bracas deposuerunt, latum clavum sumpserunt, Poët. ap. Suet. Caes. 80 al.: virgatae,Prop. 4 (5), 10, 43: bracas indutus,Tac. H. 2, 20; Juv. 2, 169: pictae,Val. Fl. 6, 227: Sarmaticae,id. 5, 424: albae,Lampr. Alex. Sev. 40 fin. al.; Cod. Th. 14, 10, 2; cf. Burm. Anth. Lat. 2, p. 518, and bracatus.