Crossword clues for knickerbocker
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Knickerbocker \Knick"er*bock`er\, n. A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.
Knickerbocker \Knick"er*bock`er\, [capitalized] prop. n. [From Diedrich KNickerbocker, the fictional author of The History of New York, in fact written by Washington Irving.] A descendent of the early Dutch colonists of the New York City area; -- used mostly as a nickname for an inhabitant of New York state or especially New York City.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"descendant of Dutch settlers of New York," 1831, from Diedrich Knickerbocker, the name under which Washington Irving published his popular "History of New York" (1809). The pen-name was borrowed from Irving's friend Herman Knickerbocker, and literally means "toy marble-baker."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic used attributively as a modifier English) Of or relating to knickerbockers. 2 A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.
Wikipedia
Knickerbocker or Knickerbockers may refer to:
Knickerbocker in Spokane, Washington is a Beaux Arts building. It was designed by architect Albert Held and was built in 1911. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
The building is also listed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places.
The Knickerbocker is currently owned by Mr and Mrs Eric J Braden who are making extensive upgrades and renovations.
Knickerbocker, also spelled Knikkerbakker, Knikkerbacker, and Knickerbacker, is a surname that dates back to the early settlers of New Netherland that was popularized by Washington Irving in 1809 when he published his satirical A History of New York under the pseudonym " Diedrich Knickerbocker". The name was also a term for Manhattan's aristocracy "in the early days" and became a general term, now obsolete, for a New Yorker.
Usage examples of "knickerbocker".
Count Bunker, arrayed in a becoming suit of knickerbockers, and looking as fresh as if he had feasted last night on aerated water, who sat down to consume it.
A rip and a split and Blinky parted from the best part of his knickerbockers.
Wall Street men fell to the spell of stocks, ruffled shirts and knickerbockers, and as the evening advanced, were quite themselves in the minuette and polka, bowing low in solemn rigidity, leading their lady with high arched arm, grasping her pinched-in waist, and swinging her beruffled, crinolined form in quite the 1860 manner.
This very point was brought up recently in conversation with an artist, who in referring to one of the most successful costume balls ever given in New York--the crinoline ball at the old Astor House--spoke of how our unromantic Wall Street men fell to the spell of stocks, ruffled shirts and knickerbockers, and as the evening advanced, were quite themselves in the minuette and polka, bowing low in solemn rigidity, leading their lady with high arched arm, grasping her pinched-in waist, and swinging her beruffled, crinolined form in quite the 1860 manner.
And babies born in New Amsterdam were Knickerbockers, and babies born in Boston were Yankees, and babies born in Charleston were Jacobians or Cavaliers or some such name.
The fashionable season had ended, and wintering birds, as well as a number of knickerbockered Central Europeans, had replaced the English families as well as the Russian noblemen from Nipissing and Nipigon.
In 1845 Alexander Cartwright started the Knickerbocker Baseball Club of New York and wrote a set of rules.
He would throw away all his clothes and buy enough clothes for the entire backcourt of the New York Knickerbockers, and he would charge them all to Smith.
When Captain Jensen, the wildest of the Blackbirders though descended from old New York Knickerbocker stock, surged in, clad in loin-cloth, undershirt, two belted revolvers and a sheath knife, he was stopped at the beach.
She is giving the man with the white knickerbockers a recipe for bortsch.
The stout party in - white duck pants was Laird, coach of the Knickerbockers and Connaught's arch rival.
I wore corduroy knickerbockers, long black knit stockings, a kind of Norfolk jacket, and a cloth cap with a peak.
Butch just shrugged, but the sun-drenched grass and the signs advertising Knickerbocker Beer on the outfield fences and the crowd all crazy and the Belgorvian ball-machines glinting in the sunlight and the flag waving over the grandstand behind home plate and the faint odor of buttered popcorn drifting out to center and Mr.
It is true that for a few years after leaving the cradle he had exhibited a certain immatureness, but as soon as he put on knickerbockers and began to go about a little he outgrew all that.
This meant a great improvement in his lot, for Aunt immediately bought him clothes that were more what other children in Blairlogie wore, and he was happy in his corduroy knickerbockers and a mackinaw coat, and the tuque that replaced his little velvet hat with earflaps.