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knickerbockers

Knickerbockers (noun) means Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

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Men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.
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Etymology

From Knickerbocker + -s, after the short breeches worn by Diedrich Knickerbocker in George Cruikshank's illustrations of Washington Irving's 1809 A History of New York.

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"knickerbockers" (noun) means men's or boys' baggy knee breeches, of a type particularly popular in the early 20th century.

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