What is "knee-length"

Usage examples of "knee-length".

Their helms were fitted with napeguards, cheekpieces and nasals, the high collars of their knee-length scaleshirts guarded most of the throat, and the plate greaves strapped to their lower legs included a kneecop which was spiked to facilitate climbing.

People filled the streets, dodging between wagons and horse carts and handcarts, hawkers crying their wares, women in deep bonnets that hid their faces carrying shopping baskets, men in knee-length coats striding along self-importantly, apprentices in aprons or vests running errands.

I dreamt I was back in Stalag Luft I, but the guards all wore right-necked brown tunics and black knee-length boots, and there was always snow and no hope of release or escape - only the hope of death.

Two peasants walked by, in their rough tunics, knee-length, of the white wool of the Hurt.

He gestured at the hooded, knee-length military dress raincoat he wore, hanging capelike across his shoulders.

She was dressed in a smart red jacket, a knee-length black skirt, and a white silk blouse through which the outline of her brassiere was faintly visible.

From the manner of his a the black cassock that did not button down the front but fastened at the neck and was tied by a sash at the waist, the knee-length black cape and the black biretta he wore-Duncan knew this one was Jesuit.

He wore a knee-length chainmail hauberk and steel strips on leather armguards, a plain double-edged sword at his waist.

She was already wearing her “uniform”—a pair of knee-length white cotton shorts and a short-sleeved turquoise cotton polo shirt with the name Brigadoon printed above the left breast in white letters that matched the script on the bow.

They wore pied, knee-length cotehardies and mantles whose hems were dagged to fully eight inches deep.

He was almost as big a man as Alexias and the knee-length black leather jacket which covered his grey uniform was coated with white dust.

Jan Benzie was tall and thin, and wore a knee-length black dress with a sparkling brooch just above her right breast.

There was a divided skirt that would be knee-length on a small child, something called 'capri pants,' and jeans.

Madouc quickly dressed in a peasant boy's knee-length smock, bast stockings, ankle-boots, and a loose cloth cap pulled low to hide her curls.

The two human men were in tuxedoes, the Vulcan woman wore a skintight suit embroidered with Vulcan script (not the formal wear Palais tradition would have preferred, Esperanza suspected, but the woman did need to be able to do her job, and a loose robe would not have accomplished that), and the Trill woman wore a sky-blue one-piece dress that was sleeveless with a slit up the side of the knee-length skirt, which Esperanza suspected was there more for freedom of leg movement than fashion.