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bluchers

blucher \blu"cher\, bluchers \blu"chers\(bl[=u]"k[~e]r), n. A kind of half boot, or high shoe, with laces over the tongue; -- named from the Prussian general Bl["u]cher.
--Thackeray.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Bluchers

type of old-style boots, from Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht Blücher (1742-1819).

Wiktionary
bluchers

n. (plural of blucher English)

WordNet
bluchers

n. a high shoe with laces over the tongue [syn: blucher]

Usage examples of "bluchers".

Two dozen of his men, armed with short-handled, long bladed spears, and divested of all clothing, were to act as Bluchers.

In gratitude, M'tapa clapped his hands at the level of his chest, and then turned to squawk an order at the waiting Bluchers.

On the next occasion she smelt scent, and though he did not try to display the dandy meerschaum, she saw it, and heard the squeak of the new boots, not bluchers.

A pair of old bluchers was on one side of the door, and a large red wateringcan on the other.

Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside.

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in his bluchers.

He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.

They reminded you, in a way, of those fellows whom everyone growing up in America had seen at one time or another, those fellows from the neighborhood who wear sport shirts designed in weird blooms and streaks of tubercular blue and runny-egg yellow hanging out over pants the color of a fifteen-cent cigar, with balloon seats and pleats and narrow cuffs that stop three or four inches above the ground, the better to reveal their olive-green GI socks and black bulb-toed bluchers, as they head off to the Republic Auto Parts store for a set of shock-absorber pads so they can prop up the 1953 Hudson Hornet on some cinderblocks and spend Saturday and Sunday underneath it beefing up the suspension.

He had on a well-cut but old-fashioned double-breasted blue serge suit, starched white shirt, linen pocket square, Windsor-knotted navy tie, and mirror-bright black bluchers with extra heel.