blucher
See also: Blucher
English edit
Etymology edit
Named from Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), a Prussian general.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
blucher (plural bluchers)
- (historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
- A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
- 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 13:
- He whistled tunelessly his one air, beating his own time with a stick on the toe of his blucher, then looked overhead at the sun and calculated that she must have been lying like that for `close up an hour.'