knee breeches in English

noun
1
short trousers worn by men and fastened at or just below the knee.
Although aristocrats tended to favor powdered hair and tight-fitting knee breeches in the old style, most middle-class men wore trousers or pantaloons and kept their hair in a natural style.
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1. 6 words related to Codpiece: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers, flap

2. 7 words related to Buckskins: breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers, plural, plural form

3. Buckskins - breeches made of buckskin breeches, knee breeches, knee pants, knickerbockers, knickers - trousers ending above the knee plural, plural form - …

4. 28 Alfred was waving a white-stockinged leg in the air, Heinrich experimentally bending over in his black knee breeches.

5. Footmen in livery and knee-breeches drew back and replaced the guests'chairs when they sat down(http://Sentencedict.com), while the major-domo ceremoniously ladled out steaming soup from a silver tureen.

6. Noun (used with a plural verb) Also called knee Breeches. knee-length trousers, often having ornamental buckles or elaborate decoration at or near the bottoms, commonly worn by men and boys in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries.