Other forms: codpieces
A codpiece is a padded pouch worn at the front of old men's hose. An enormous codpiece, wear a codpiece, the codpiece of the portrait.
It began as a practical flap, since hose came as two separate legs, and grew through the sixteenth century into a stuffed and decorated display — Henry the Eighth's portraits are the standard example. Cod is an old English word for a bag.
1nouncodpieceA padded pouch worn at the front of old men's hose.
“In the portrait, the king wears tight hose and a jewelled codpiece.”
codpiece is a garment part.
Cod, an old word for a bag or pouch, plus piece.
From cod + piece.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire