PERIZOMA. This word is wholly Greek. It signifies a kind of Breeches, or a very broad Girt, which covered the Reins, and what Modesty requires to be concealed. The Latins call it Subligaculum. Moses Gen. iii. 7. Vulgat.says, that our first Parents, after their Sin, sewed together the broad Leaves of the Fig-tree, to make themselves Aprons, Perizomata, to cover their Nakedness.
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