blucher

¹

[bloo-ker, -cher]

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.

Blücher

²

[bloo-ker, -cher, bly-khuhr]

noun

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

Blücher

¹

/ ˈblyçər /

noun

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

blucher

²

/ -tʃə, ˈbluːkə /

noun

1. obsolete,  a high shoe with laces over the tongue

Word History and Origins

Origin of blucher¹

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blucher¹

C19: named after Field Marshal _Blücher

Example Sentences

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.

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She was smoking a pipe, and looking at her blucher boots.

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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.

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It is a fact that they used to boil their blucher boots for twenty-four hours and eat them with weeds!

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The boots I wore were heavy hand-sewn bluchers, two sizes too large for me.

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