1754 1 Jan. 4/3 To be sold…shoe and knee buckles, snuffers, gun hammers.
1761 XLVIII. 96 To be sold by George Deblois..a great variety newest fashion shoe and knee buckles.
1772 Henley in (Royal Soc.) 62 135 His stock, shoe, and knee-buckles,..were all uninjured.