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Meanings of knee breeches in English
Catalan
pantalons curts 
Synonyms
Examples for "breeches"
Examples for "breeches"
1
He thought of Napier, bending to thank him for finishing the breeches.
2
The voluminous breeches now acknowledge the superior graces of intimate English trousers.
3
A man in knee-breeches and silver-buckled shoes emerged from the back drawing-room.
4
I wore leathern breeches, and the blue uniform of the Russian cavalry.
5
The short breeches they wore were fastened at the knee by bands.
1
You're just going to have to hold your knickers on and see.
2
Then he took off her knickers and held them in his hand.
3
Oh no, she'd strip off her knickers soon as look at you.
4
Because it had the knickers attached to it, inside the skirt bit.
5
Is that a gently rounded tummy on that bra and knickers-clad model?
1
As it was, everybody was running after the young man in knickerbockers.
2
Even the English people who come here put on knickerbockers and bonnets.
3
His stockings were short, and did not come up to his knickerbockers.
4
His knickerbockers, in the elegance of their lines, were the delight of beholders.
5
And now to little Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell in knickerbockers and Holland jerkin.
1
They are Italians here, and are at work on knee pants.
2
Instead they wore loose fitting jackets of some silky material, and loose knee pants.
3
The woman makes knee pants of grammar-schoolboy size; she receives sixteen cents a dozen pairs.
4
Over the headstone presently came the knee pants, the faded calico waist with bone buttons.
5
He'll look like a toy balloon in knee pants.
Usage of knee breeches in English
1
It's like Law & Order with knee breeches and powdered wigs.
2
At this period knee breeches were worn almost altogether in England.
3
The thing that held us was his blue plush knee breeches.
4
His plain black coat and knee breeches were wrinkled from travel.
5
An ancient butler in knee breeches opened the door forMalachi Constant of Hollywood.
6
Underneath he was wearing black priestly knee breeches and a black priestly shirt.
7
The "wheel" has introduced knickerbockers and promises to result in knee breeches.
8
They wore the prescribed dress: black coats, knee breeches, low shoes and silver buckles.
9
The men were in gay coats and knee breeches, silk stockings and buckled shoes.
10
He wore a gay-flowered waistcoat, with knee breeches, and huge silver buckles on his shoes.
11
He was very sturdy, and he was clothed smartly in a velvet jacket and knee breeches.
12
But he rose from his deckchair once the waves began to cover the boy's knee breeches.
13
Alymer ought to have had knee breeches and silk stockings, and they would look just perfect.
14
Most of them were dressed in Old World fashion, doublets, knee breeches, hose, and cocked hats.
15
It does not conceal his huge hairy chest, nor his half-buttoned knee breeches, nor his legs.
16
My mind is set on knee breeches and I shan't be happy until I get them.