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

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

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 Morris, Edward Ellis

And so we see them in their kitchen installed at the foot of the Monument, wearing aprons over their middle-aged tummies, blucher boots, and round flat caps.

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

Men turned to look at him as he tramped past in his heavy, mud-stained blucher boots.

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)