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open-kneed breeches

open-kneed breeches noun: wide-legged breeches ending below the knee.

Noun

open-kneed breeches pl (plural only)

  1. (historical, plural, plural-only) Wide-legged breeches ending below the knee.
    • I had a short Jacket of Goat-Skin, the Skirts coming down to about the middle of my Thighs; and a pair of open-knee’d breeches of the same; the Breeches were made of the Skin of an old He-Goat, whose Hair hung down such a Length on either Side, that like Pantaloons it reach’d to the middle of my...1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 176
    • If the Times are alter’d with the Wives, so they are with the Husbands, since they wore slash Doublets, short Cloaks, and open knee’d Breeches, with their own thin lank Hair, that look’d like the Fringe of a Blanket, or the Strings of a Bunch of Leeks; you can now wear the best Fashion and richest...1719, William Mountfort, Greenwich-Park; A Comedy, London: G. Strahan & W. Mears, Act I, Scene 1
    Synonyms:
    slops

Synonyms of open-kneed breeches

Questions about open-kneed breeches

What does open-kneed breeches mean?
Open-kneed breeches means wide-legged breeches ending below the knee.
What part of speech is open-kneed breeches?
Open-kneed breeches is a noun.

Words near open-kneed breeches in the dictionary

  1. open-hearted
  2. open-heartedly
  3. open-heartedness
  4. open-hearth
  5. open-kneed
  6. open-kneed breeches
  7. open-loop
  8. open-mid
  9. open-minded
  10. open-mindedly
  11. open-mindedness

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