knickerbocker

English

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Noun

knickerbocker (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickerbockers.
   • 1892, The Twentieth Century

     ...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.

   • 1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song

     His knickerbocker days are gone, / His last long stockings laid away: / My baby has his trousers on, — / My boy becomes a man to-day.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /(k)ni.kœʁ.bɔ.kœʁ/

Noun

knickerbocker m (plural knickerbockers)

1. Alternative spelling of knickerbockers.