• (British) IPA: /ˈkɒdˌpiːs/

codpiece (plural codpieces)

1. A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     , Act III, Scene III, line 130.

     Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?

2. A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.

• French: braguette
• German: Schamkapsel
• Portuguese: braguilha

• German: Schamkapsel