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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. )

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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

Hence the toe of the blucher treads on the heel of the tan boot, and galls its stitches.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

Early in the entertainment, Willoughby's hat was bucked off his head; presently the wellington boot was bucked off one foot, and the blucher off the other, the prince-alberts following in due course.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

He was a tall, ungainly-looking countryman, dressed in a blue bobtailed coat with white metal buttons, white duck trousers, heavy blucher boots, and a top hat and white gloves. 

From Rambling Recollections of Chelsea by an old inhabitant by J. B. Ellenor

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

Writing on Twitter, Louis-Dreyfus said: "Cloris Leachman's perfect performance as Frau Blücher had an enormous impact on my life. She was sublime. 'He vas my boyfriend!' RIP."

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

The "Tiger," as soon as the third ship in the German line became invisible, turned her attention to the "Blücher," which was already being pounded to death by the 12-inch guns of the "New Zealand."

From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson

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