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knee-band

knee-band is the alternative form of kneeband.

Meaning of kneeband

Noun

kneeband (plural kneebands)

  1. The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.
    • Can the calmest face, can the best-plaited lawn-sleeves, can the highest-drawn pink stockings, can the comeliest thigh-cases, the most nicely puckered at the kneeband, or can the most virginal apron, do away with or cover this ?1891, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

Forms of knee-band

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Questions about knee-band

What is knee-band the alternative form of?
Knee-band is the alternative form of kneeband.

Words near knee-band in the dictionary

  1. knee wall
  2. knee walls
  3. knee'd
  4. knee-ache
  5. knee-aches
  6. knee-band
  7. knee-bands
  8. knee-breeches
  9. knee-buckler
  10. knee-bucklers
  11. knee-cap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knee-band (page history and authors); kneeband (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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