Meaning of knee-breeches | Babel Free

Definitions

Breeches reaching down to or just below the knee.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“This Eben did every day till he grew out of knee-breeches into long corduroy trousers.”

“Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.”

“All over British Africa, speakers in their traditional wigs and knee-breeches presided over the rectangular debating chambers of the Westminster model, in which ‘government’ and ‘opposition’ sat facing each other.”

“Orthodox Jews, in knee-breeches, with round hats and ringlets down their cheeks, were indulging in strange jerking movements, like puppets, while reading books […]”

CEFR level