knickerbockers
Meaning
Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
Synonyms
knee pants
short pants
knee breeches
Translations
bombacho
culotte
Knickerbocker
κιλότα φουφούλα
pantalons curts
calzoni alla zuava
pofbroekPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnɪkəbɒkəz/
Etymology
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.
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