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knickerbockers

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14 lettersPronunciation /ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/Part of speech nounSorted bcceeikkknorrsStarts with KEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (used in the plural) trousers ending above the knee

Word origin

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.

Used in a sentence

  • Five men and a woman, two young girls,[…], and a boy […] are at the machines sewing knickerbockers, “knee-pants” in the Ludlow Street dialect.
  • And it was early morning, and the world was moist, when the crystal-gazer's husband, a freak in knickerbockers with an open coppish and a sabbath gamp, came over the stones outside his house to meet the holy travellers.

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