knickerbocker en · NOUN
Etymology
See knickerbockers.
Meanings
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(archaic, as a modifier, attributive, uncountable) Of or relating to knickerbockers.
His knickerbocker days are gone, His last long stockings laid away: My baby has his trousers on, — My boy becomes a man to-day.
1905, Daniel Leavens Cady, Stray Breaths of North East Song:...with a rudimentary beard to set it off, a dirty shirt, a rifle, a coat over my arm, and half a grouse in my knickerbocker pocket.
1892, The Twentieth Century:
- (uncountable) A linsey-woolsey fabric with a rough knotted surface on the right side, formerly used for women's dresses.