knickerbockers
Britishplural noun
Etymology
Origin of knickerbockers
C19: regarded as the traditional dress of the Dutch settlers in America; see Knickerbocker
Vocabulary lists containing knickerbockers
Example Sentences
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Suits included boyish shorts or knickerbockers more often than a trouser.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2020
Neither of them enjoyed it and they left, in his recollection, after 10 minutes to head for a nearby coffee house, she in a Dirndl dress and he in knickerbockers.
From The Guardian • May 21, 2019
This image, of a fair-haired child dressed as a page boy, in cape and knickerbockers, adorns the cover of the American edition of Sebald’s novel.
From The New Yorker • May 29, 2017
Until 1997, when the Royal Opera House closed for renovation, bouquets were brought onstage by two men dressed in white wigs, knickerbockers and much gold braid.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
Smeltings boys wore maroon tailcoats, orange knickerbockers, and flat straw hats called boaters.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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