How To Use Knickerbockers In A Sentence
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A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
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Across from Miss Hazel sat her brother in knickerbockers, his Alpine stock at his elbow and also his fan.
Jerry Junior
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Theo's wearing loose knickerbockers, as loose and unrestricting as Wendy's dress.
SPLITTING
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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.
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I was in knickerbockers and khaki shirt; Mifflin in greasy gray flannels and subfusc Norfolk.
Shandygaff
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Co-owner Chris Puttnam said the fabric makes for dapper clothes that aren't as precious as the knickerbockers that have had a resurgence lately among English cyclists.
Easy Riders
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He really _was_ a good-looking young man, and in his knickerbockers and golf stockings Janice thought he seemed very "citified" indeed.
Janice Day at Poketown
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They continued popularity through the 1920s and 30s when they became known as knickerbockers after a common last of the New York Dutch who wore traditional knee pants.
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The little boy in knickerbockers playing with a diabolo on page 103 is a perfect period piece.
Benefit Of Clergy: Some Notes On Salvador Dali
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He was dressed in a fancy pale blue over jacket with matching knickerbockers, and white hose.
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He went to the flat of one of his schoolfellows and came out, an hour later, irrecognizable, rigged out as an Englishman of thirty, in a brown check suit, with knickerbockers, woolen stockings and a cap, a high-colored complexion and a red wig.
The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin
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And there emerged from the inner room a trim, lithe, almost boyishly slim figure attired in a bewitchingly skittish-looking garment consisting of knickerbockers and snug brassiere of king's blue satin messaline.
Roast Beef, Medium
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Ellen talks about childhood memories: she remembers that Archer kissed her behind a door, and mentions that she can picture everybody in the audience in their knickerbockers and pantalettes.
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However, many women now affect "knickerbockers" and vice versa.
Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises
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For cycling, shooting and golf, knickerbockers and plus-fours, a type of loose knee-breeches fastened at the knee with a band were favored, and for rowing, knit sweaters in team or school colors (e.g. light blue for Cambridge, navy for Oxford).
Dressing the Edwardian Man | Edwardian Promenade
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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.
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They continued popularity through the 1920s and 30s when they became known as knickerbockers after a common last of the New York Dutch who wore traditional knee pants.
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About 30 followers, many in red waistcoats and green knickerbockers, gathered yesterday to mark the last official hare hunt.
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None of these was in sight, however, as we strolled the streets, but we did disturb the chat or gossip of two delightful, apple cheeked old ladies in white caps, who became dumb with astonishment at the sight of two foreigners who walked about gazing up at the roofs and windows of the houses, and at the mynheer in knickerbockers who was always looking about him and writing in a little book.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
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Old-fashioned long stockings with colorful stripes were called knickerbockers, and that’s how this parfait got its name.
The Fussy Eaters’ Recipe Book
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Sir Malaroy himself would most likely be in knickerbockers but anything for peace!
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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From the scrimpy legs of the knickerbockers his knees shone bare and brown.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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Even the low-minded costermonger, to whom ‘wellingtons’ are objects of contempt and derision, and who laughs to scorn galligaskins and knickerbockers, evinces the national tendency for leather by stipulating for ‘anklejacks’ with ‘tongues’ ample enough to overlap the lacings by at least three inches.
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Right down to the knickerbockers and stripey tights.
The Sun
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Pupils came to school in historic costume, including Eton collars for the boys and three-quarter length knickerbockers and pinafores for the girls.
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Stripped of all apologetic circumlocution, "knickerbockers" are simply loose, easy trousers, above which is worn a becoming blouse waist, and thus attired, the belles of New
The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
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The thing that has got to keep us afloat until full skirts come in again will be a full and complete line of women's satin messaline knickerbockers made up to match any suit or gown, and a full line of pajamas for women and girls.
Roast Beef, Medium
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Emil had come to the lake directly from university, wearing a pair of plus-four knickerbockers with boots and a belted, one-button coat with large patch pockets.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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She showed well finished (not just overlocked, but bound) knickerbockers in black, a pink singlet with covered buttons and suspender clips, and a white singlet with a column of buttons down the left.
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The room is a hugger-mugger of tables with a bar, and pictures of Iberians in pink knickerbockers doing painful things to ungulates.
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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.
Uneasy Money
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He was an extremely picturesque gardener, dressed in knickerbockers and leather gaiters, with a touch of red in his waistcoat, and a cardigan jacket and a cap on the side of his head.
Just Patty
