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Knickerbockers

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Loose kneebreeches, worn by boys, cyclists, sportsmen, tourists, etc. So named from George Cruikshank’s illustrations of Washington Irving’s book referred to above. In these illustrations the Dutch worthies are drawn with very loose knee-breeches.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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