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Origin of knee breechesFirst recorded in 1825–35 Words nearby knee breechesknee, knee action, knee bend, kneeboard, knee brace, knee breeches, kneecap, knee-chest position, knee-deep, knee drop, knee-elbow position Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for knee breechesThere were men dressed in colonial garb complete with knee-breeches and powdered wigs. New York’s Century-Old Time Capsule Is a Dud|Justin Jones|October 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST But my father powdered his head, and kept to his knee-breeches to the last; so did all elderly gentlemen, when I was a boy. Tracks of a Rolling Stone|Henry J. Coke He should not have omitted the matter of the exchange of the cardinal's knee-breeches for the valet's pantaloons. Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870|Various As for stockings, they are about as useful to a young Tagalo girl, as knee-breeches to a Scotch-highlander. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat|Edmund Roberts
The man I remember had gray clothes and knee-breeches and the woman a gray dress, and my nurse had said contemptuously, “towrows.” Reveries over Childhood and Youth|William Butler Yeats Lace frills of costly Point edged the knee-breeches, lace cravats were worn and deep falling cuffs. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework|Emily Leigh Lowes
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