单词 | blucher |
释义 | bluchern. 1. A strong leather half-boot or high shoe, the actual pattern varying with the fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > boot > [noun] > reaching to below knee bootingc1300 sabatinec1460 brodequin1481 buskin1503 bottine?a1513 Russian boot1781 half-boot1787 Wellington1816 blucher1833 squaw boot1942 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 588/2 Ink-bottles alternated with..tobacco-boxes, Periodical Literature, and Blücher Boots. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xiii. 130 My own bootmaker wouldn't have allowed poor F. B. to appear in Bluchers. 1859 Sat. Rev. 19 Feb. 220/2 If they [ladies] will trample on us with a hobnailed blucher. 2. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage > without exclusive right blucher1864 1864 Social Sci. Rev. 1 406 The railway companies recognize two other classes of cabs, called the ‘privileged’..and the ‘Bluchers’ named after the Prussian Field Marshal who arrived on the field of Waterloo only to do the work that chanced to be undone. 1870 Athenæum 5 Mar. 328 Non-privileged cabs, which are admitted to stations after all the privileged have been hired, are known as Bluchers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1833 |
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