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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

But their physique was magnificent, and there was not a man among them who did not look every inch a soldier, from his iron-heeled blucher boots upwards.

From A Woman's Experience in the Great War by Louise Mack

He wore a "soft" cotton shirt with collar attached, and blucher boots.

From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson

Disencumbering himself of his ordinary garments, Lance soon found himself attired in a striped suit of coarse cloth, fitted also with rough blucher boots and a woollen cap.

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood

As he spoke he came in among them for shelter, and propped his spade against the wall of the chalet, kicking the soil from his hobnailed blucher boots, which were new.

From An Unsocial Socialist by Bernard Shaw

That May the French government interned her at Gurs as an enemy alien; amid the mass releases that followed France’s defeat, she left the camp and rejoined Blücher.

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

She won Emmys in 2002 and 2006 for her work on the Fox sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” as a grandmother every bit as frightening in her way as Frau Blücher.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2021

Accordingly, another wireless message was despatched, asking the "Blücher" to hold back her fire.

From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson