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• blucher
  blucher

  noun

  a strong, leather half boot.
• Blücher
  Blücher

  noun

  Gebhart Leberecht von 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal.

blucher

¹ American  

[bloo-ker, -cher] / ˈblu kər, -tʃər /

noun

1. a strong, leather half boot.

2. a shoe having the vamp and tongue made of one piece and overlapped by the quarters, which lace across the instep.

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Blücher ² American  

[bloo-ker, -cher, bly-khuhr] / ˈblu kər, -tʃər, ˈblü xər /

noun

1. Gebhart Leberecht von 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal.

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Blücher ¹ British  

/ ˈblyçər /

noun

1. Gebhard Leberecht von (ˈɡɛphart ˈleːbərɛçt fɔn). 1742–1819, Prussian field marshal, who commanded the Prussian army against Napoleon at Waterloo (1815)

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blucher ² British  

/ ˈbluːkə, -tʃə /

noun

1. obsolete a high shoe with laces over the tongue

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Etymology

Origin of blucher

First recorded in 1825–35; named after G. L. von Blücher ( def. )

Example Sentences

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blucher Blücher

Most tantalizing of all: fragments of a shoe--a heel, partial sole and brass shoelace eyelet--apparently from a woman's blucher oxford, size 9.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2018

The Exception is rooting about in the rubbish for the other blucher boot.

From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson

Their dresses were red shirts, thick duck trousers, broad-brimmed hats, blucher boots, and leggings, with a strap round the waist to hold the axe and pouch containing matches, knife, and other small articles.

From The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers by William Henry Giles Kingston

"How the deuce should I know? or what do I care?" cries the young artist, stamping the heel of his blucher on the pavement.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

He was grey and grizzled, but well fed, and he wore a Cardigan jacket, brown moleskin trousers, blucher boots, and socks, all of which were mended with rough patches.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

On the passenger list of the Guiné, which sailed from Lisbon for New York on May 10, 1941, Heinrich Blücher appeared as a 41-year-old author and Hannah Arendt simply as his 34-year-old wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Despite the fact that they were being pursued by actual Nazis and the threat of death, Arendt and Blücher spent their time tooling around the glorious French countryside on bikes and reading good novels.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2022

Director Mel Brooks also praised her turn as the grim-faced Transylvanian housekeeper Blücher - whose very name struck fear into horses - in his 1974 comedy Young Frankenstein as "unforgettable".

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2021

In 1974, Leachman played the iconic Frau Blücher — the sinister housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate whose very name spooked the horses — in Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s horror parody “Young Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

Presently, the "Princess Royal" joined in the battle, and fired with such deadly accuracy that almost at once the Blücher was observed to be rapidly falling astern.

From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson