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kneeband en · NOUN

Etymology

From knee + band.

Meanings

1. The band at the bottom of a leg on a pair of breeches.
   • Pass the hook & tape through it, & down between the breeches & drawers, & fix the hook on the edge of your kneeband, an inch from the kneebuckle. 1991, James Madison, William Thomas Hutchinson, William Munford Ellis Rachal, The Papers of James Madison, page 36:
   • 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:
   • The kneeband started to be buckled around 1735; previous to this the kneeband was buttoned. 2005, Carolyn L. White, American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820, →ISBN, page 43:

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