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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Trousers extending to or just below the knee.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Breeches that reach to the knee or just below it; especially, a close-fitting garment covering the thigh and the lower part of the body, worn generally from the beginning of the eighteenth century until about 1815. See
knickerbocker , 3.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun trousers ending above the knee
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