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A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothes (breeches being tight-fitting knee-length pants, the standard male garment at the time breeches roles were introduced). It can also refer, in opera, to any male part sung and acted by a female singer — in the case of a woman playing the role of a young man, the part is often filled by a mezzo soprano.