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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  

/ -tʃə, ˈbluːkə /

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

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 average share of that knowledge which is power is undoubtedly in favour of the tan boot; but the preponderant moiety is just as surely held by the blucher.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

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

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

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 Shaw, Bernard

"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 Thackeray, William Makepeace