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Definition of knickerbocker in English: knickerbockernoun ˈnɪkəbɒkəˈnɪkərˌbɑkər 1knickerbockersLoose-fitting breeches gathered at the knee or calf. （小腿或膝盖处扎紧的）灯笼裤 Example sentencesExamples - He was dressed in a fancy pale blue over jacket with matching knickerbockers, and white hose.
- Pupils came to school in historic costume, including Eton collars for the boys and three-quarter length knickerbockers and pinafores for the girls.
- About 30 followers, many in red waistcoats and green knickerbockers, gathered yesterday to mark the last official hare hunt.
- Turton FC was founded in 1871 and in 1873 issued a book of rules showing that the Harrow form of football was played and that the club colours were blue knickerbockers, white stockings and white jerseys.
- Even when I was six years old, I was a page boy at a wedding, and the outfit I wanted to wear was knickerbockers, knee-length socks, frilly shirt, and ballet shoes.
2informal A New Yorker. Example sentencesExamples - They were among the oldest of the Knickerbockers on this island.
- Unlike the old Knickerbocker establishment, where birth and breeding gave social standing, in this democratic meritocracy it is the prestige of your job that tells us where you are in the social order.
- 2.1 A descendant of the original Dutch settlers in New York.
纽约初期荷兰移民的后代
Derivativesadjective In the very early 1980s, the bar was the rather unlikely official meeting place for the city's wannabe Blitz kids - the original New Romantics, in all their knickerbockered glory. Example sentencesExamples - He's gone all-out on his art-deco theming, and not a detail seems to have been missed, from the knickerbockered porters to the 1920s music to the characteristic typeface on the room-number plaques.
OriginMid 19th century (originally in sense 2): named after Diedrich Knickerbocker, pretended author of W. Irving's History of New York (1809). sense 1 is said to have arisen from the resemblance of knickerbockers to the knee breeches worn by Dutch men in George Cruikshank's illustrations in Irving's book. Definition of knickerbocker in US English: knickerbockernounˈnikərˌbäkərˈnɪkərˌbɑkər 1knickerbockers see knickers Example sentencesExamples - Even when I was six years old, I was a page boy at a wedding, and the outfit I wanted to wear was knickerbockers, knee-length socks, frilly shirt, and ballet shoes.
- Turton FC was founded in 1871 and in 1873 issued a book of rules showing that the Harrow form of football was played and that the club colours were blue knickerbockers, white stockings and white jerseys.
- He was dressed in a fancy pale blue over jacket with matching knickerbockers, and white hose.
- About 30 followers, many in red waistcoats and green knickerbockers, gathered yesterday to mark the last official hare hunt.
- Pupils came to school in historic costume, including Eton collars for the boys and three-quarter length knickerbockers and pinafores for the girls.
2informal A New Yorker. Example sentencesExamples - They were among the oldest of the Knickerbockers on this island.
- Unlike the old Knickerbocker establishment, where birth and breeding gave social standing, in this democratic meritocracy it is the prestige of your job that tells us where you are in the social order.
- 2.1 A descendant of the original Dutch settlers in New York.
纽约初期荷兰移民的后代
OriginMid 19th century (originally in knickerbocker (sense 2)): named after Diedrich Knickerbocker, pretended author of W. Irving's History of New York (1809). knickerbocker (sense 1) is said to have arisen from the resemblance of knickerbockers to the knee breeches worn by Dutch men in George Cruikshank's illustrations in Irving's book. |