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knee-cords

knee-cords noun: knee-breeches made of corduroy.

Noun

knee-cords pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) knee-breeches made of corduroy
    • A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16

Questions about knee-cords

What does knee-cords mean?
Knee-cords means knee-breeches made of corduroy.
What part of speech is knee-cords?
Knee-cords is a noun.

Words near knee-cords in the dictionary

  1. knee-bucklers
  2. knee-cap
  3. knee-capping
  4. knee-cappings
  5. knee-caps
  6. knee-cords
  7. knee-crooking
  8. knee-deep
  9. knee-deep in the Big Muddy
  10. knee-high
  11. knee-high blackberry

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